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35-year-old man was killed in an explosion in an industrial subdi-

vision on the west outskirts of Red Deer on Thursday afternoon.

Two witnesses in the area reported that they heard and felt the explosion at 1:40 p.m. in the Belich Industrial area.

When they rushed over

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across the street to the back of one corner of the nearby business — J Moore Enterprises at 30 Belich Cres.

— they found the back of a tanker truck ripped open by the explosion, and there was smoke and a fire that burned

for about 10 minutes.

“It sounded like it was from right next door here … just one really big bang,” said Phillip Madsen who was at work at Canadian Closet.

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Police and emergency services personnel investigate the scene of a tanker explosion Thursday afternoon at 30 Belich Cres., south of Hwy 11, just west of Red Deer.

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NOVEMBER 4 1837 — Les Fils de la Liberté (Sons of Liberty) hold a massive Patriote rally in Montréal on the Place d’Armes; a riot breaks out when members of the English Doric Club, determined to ‘crush rebellion in the bud’, throw a hail of stones at the rebels, who fight back; Chevalier de Lorimier and Thomas Storrow Brown are seriously injured in the street fighting; under the eye of the militia, the English youths roam the streets and demonstrate in front of the house of Louis-Joseph Papineau.

1959 — Province of Alberta bans trading stamps and similar promotional vehicles.

1979 — Edmonton Oilers move to the new Northlands Coliseum.

1981 — Pierre Trudeau and René Lévesque discuss holding a referendum on the BNA Act amending formula and Charter of Rights within two years; Lévesque later backs down, claiming a gang-up by the anglophone provinces; so called “Night of the Long Knives” (“La Nuit des Longs Couteaux”).

1991 — Trois-Rivières, Québec goaltender Manon Rhéaume signs with the Atlanta Knights of the IHL; the 20-year-old becomes the First woman to sign a professional hockey contract; she suits up for a game on November 6, but doesn’t play.

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Living wage higher than province’s minimum wage

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

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ed Deer’s living wage — that averages $13.86 — is higher than the province’s minimum wage that increased last month, according to Central Alberta Poverty Reduction Alliance.

On Thursday, CAPRA announced the city’s 2016 living wage was $13.86 per hour for each parent for a couple with two children, $14.10 for a lone parent with one child, and $13.68 for a single adult.

On Oct. 1, Alberta’s minimum wage, determined by the provincial government, increased by $1 to $12.20.

A living wage is the income needed to meet basic needs in the community where people live. It is a conservative estimate and excludes such things as saving for retirement, personal or disability insurance, pet ownership, or meeting special dietary needs.

Basic needs include food, rent, clothing, transportation, child care, health care, personal care items, household expenses, basic cellphone, television and Internet.

Harrison Blizzard, member of the CAPRA Living Wage Committee, said living wage calculations were based on very conservative spending.

“So if someone has any extra costs that they may incur because they don’t fit into this calculation, there will have to be a sacrifice somewhere.

That may going into debt or not being able to pay for something they need for a well life,” Blizzard said at CAPRA’s event Creating Financial Pathways at Pidherney Centre on Thursday morning.

Red Deer’s living wage in 2014 was $13.11 per hour for each parent for a couple with two children, $14.75 for a

FROM PAGE A1 His co-worker, Rick, who did not want to give his last name, said he has first aid, and he wanted to rush in and try and help, but there was another tanker truck right next to the explosion, and they were unsure of how safe the scene was. He also did not have the proper equipment.

They said that emergency responders, who arrived within 10 minutes, rushed into the scene right away.

Jordon Ohman, who works at another nearby business, KelloBilt, said they felt the explosion also, and rushed out to see what had happened.

He said he didn’t notice anyone

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lone parent with one child, and $11.59 for a single adult.

Blizzard said the living wage for a lone parent dropped in 2016 because the new Canada Child Care Benefit from the federal government offset cost increases. Living wages for other Central Alberta communities were higher than in Red Deer. In Blackfalds, the living wage was $19.43 per hour for each parent for a couple with two children, $13.24 for a lone parent with one child, and $19.84 for a single adult. In Sylvan Lake, it was $18.48 per hour for the couple, $13.23 for a lone parent with one child, and $20.65 for a single adult.

He said talking about a living wage is necessary especially as more Albertans face job loss or fewer hours on the job.

“I think it’s a very good conversation for people to recognize that most of the population in the province and communities around Red Deer and in Red Deer, are a lot more vulnerable than we think or at higher risk,” Blizzard said.

Mayor Tara Veer said the community looks forward to initiatives CAPRA and its partners will pursue in the near future.

“Today’s announcement identifying costs of basic needs in Red Deer is a sobering reminder for all of us of the financial adversities that many of our fellow citizens are forced to contend with and of the ethical imperative that we all have as we deliver programs and services to the financially vulnerable,” Veer said.

“The presence of everyone here today ultimately demonstrates that financial access for all matters,” the mayor said.

FINNING

Centre of Excellence closing; 200 jobs in jeopardy

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF

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bout 200 people could lose their jobs after the Finning Centre of Excellence in Red Deer announced on Thursday it is closing in early 2017.

One of the key functions of the heavy-equipment dealer in Red Deer is preparing and customizing new machinery prior to its delivery to customers. It also overhauls used machinery.

Finning Canada is part of Finning International, which is headquartered in Vancouver and the largest Caterpillar equipment dealer in the world. It supplies machinery for the forestry, mining, construction and other industries.

Finning Canada opened the Centre of Excellence (COE) in Red Deer in 2008, after buying Collicutt Energy Services Ltd. — including its Edgar Industrial Park facilities.

The final number on job losses is not yet known. The company will try and retain and relocate as many employees as possible but will redistribute the work in Red Deer to other locations.

“It’s important to note we are not leaving the community as we have a customer-facing branch in Red Deer that will continue to serve customers in the area. This was a difficult decision and we are doing our best to retain and relocate as many employees as possible.” Hillary Anaka, company spokesperson, said in a statement.

Third-quarter results for the company showed a 12-per-cent decline in revenue.

Reg Warkentin, policy and advocacy manager at the Red Deer Chamber of Commerce, said in a statement that the layoffs are really unfortunate timing considering recent reports that the Alberta economy is beginning to take a turn for the better.

Finning is an international company making a strategic decision and activity at the Centre of Excellence is subject to world commodity glut, he said.

Much of the work at the COE was for equipment used for the oil sands, and ongoing low oil prices and lack of market access have constrained growth.

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else around at the scene. The explosion was very loud and completely shook the building he works in. He did not know anyone at the business where the explosion occurred.

There were several reports on social media of people hearing and feeling the explosion on the west side of Red Deer in Oriole Park.

Red Deer County fire and traffic members attended the scene, as well as RCMP and ambulance. RCMP were employing the use of a drone on scene to gather more information.

Victim Services was also called to the scene.

Blackfalds RCMP said Alberta Occupational Health and Safety now have control of the investigation. barr@reddeeradvocate

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LIFESTYLE

Instructors honoured Murder trial date for scholarly activity to be set Dec. 5 completed in 2015

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Three people with influenza admitted to hospital So far three people with influenza have been admitted to hospital in Central Alberta this flu season.

As of Oct. 29, 32 people had been admitted to hospitals across the province.

Alberta Health Services Central Zone has had nine laboratory-confirmed flu cases out of 97 provincewide. The annual influenza immunization campaign began Oct. 24.

Vaccine is available free of charge to all Albertans six months of age and older.

Some pharmacies and physician offices also offer influenza vaccine. Children younger than age nine must be immunized at an AHS clinic.

Visit www.albertahealthservices.ca/influ.

During the 2015-16 flu season there were 62 influenza-related deaths in Alberta, including five people from Central Alberta. AHS Central Zone had 774 lab-confirmed flu cases, and 202 Central Albertans were admitted to hospital.

Calgary man to stand trial on assault charges A Calgary man arrested in connection with a brawl that left a man dead and another seriously wounded in Lacombe last December will stand trial on assault charges.

A preliminary hearing for Jesse Vankroonenburgh, 24, was held in Red Deer provincial court on Thursday with a number of witnesses testifying.

Following the hearing, Judge John Holmes committed Vankroonenburgh to stand trial on charges of aggravated assault and assault with a weapon.

Vankroonenburgh also consented to go to trial on two charges of failing to comply with a court order.

Vankroonenburgh will be arraigned on Dec. 5 and a trial date set in Court of Queen’s Bench. He is not in custody.

A Lacombe Police Service spokesperson was unavailable to provide an update on whether anyone has been charged in connection with the man who died.

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WAGE: Access for all “The presence of everyone here today ultimately demonstrates that financial access for all matters,” the mayor said.

Robert Stefaniszyn, director of operations at Cosmos Group of Companies, said living wages should be established for different communities because of how much the cost of living can vary around Alberta.

Stefaniszyn said he participated in previous round-table discussions on minimum wage and businesses worried about the plan to increase it to $15 an hour in 2018.

“The consensus was the minimum wage definitely had to go up. But the time they are doing it is going to impact a lot of businesses that can’t

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hen they aren’t teaching, many Red Deer College instructors are working on a diverse range of projects from ways to improve public apologies to mentoring welding students. Nine instructors are being awarded today with the Recognition of Scholarly Activity Awards completed in 2015: ● Dr. Dale Wheeler, School of Creative Arts, for his performances of Pianos Galore ● Clayton Pottinger, School of Health Sciences, for his publication of The Gold Medal Profile Research Project for Basketball Canada ● Ken Heather, School of Trades and Technologies, for his work as Canada’s Expert for Welding and Mentor to the Team Canada Welding Competitor for the 2015 WorldSkills Competition ● Elaine Spencer, School of Arts and Sciences, for her publication, No Regrets: Suggestions for Improvements to Public Apologies ● Dr. Baiju Pallicka Vareed, School of Arts and Sciences, for his publication, NGOs and Participatory Development in India ● Elissa Odgren, School of Arts and Sciences, for her publication of, Learning How to Build Community without Following the Instructions: Finding Pieces of Resistance in The Lego Movie ● Keith Hansen, School of Health Sciences, for his two publications, Coach Evaluation from Three Perspectives: An Athletic Director, A Coach and a Consultant and Relationship among Coaching Success, Servant Leadership, Cohesion and Social Behaviours ● Dr. Jeffrey Wigelsworth, School of Arts and Sciences, for his publication and selected chapters of Atheism and Deism Revalued: Heterodox Religious Identified in Britain, 1650 – 1800 ● Dr. Jenna Butler, School of Arts and Sciences, for her publication of A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail Members from the recognition of scholarly activity committee select recipient from applications submitted by faculty members. Applications are assessed on innovation, creativity, originality, influence, acclaim and breadth of dissemination.

In 2006, RDC and the Faculty Association created an annual fund of $10,000 to recognize significant scholarly undertakings by faculty members. sustain it right now in this economy. There is a time and a place to do it.”

He said new employees at Cosmos earn $14 an hour and should have no problem meeting the 2018 minimum wage. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

FINNING: ‘Big blow’ “This is obviously a big blow, but we will get through this as a community,” Warkentin said, adding that it is great to see Finning making concerted efforts to retain, and relocate, as many employees as possible.

On a positive note, Warkentin noted Precision Drilling is rehiring 1,000 people and Calfrac is hosting a big job fair today from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Quality Inn. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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trial date will be set for a Lacombe man accused of first-degree murder in a decade-old killing following a preliminary hearing on Thursday.

Defence lawyer Michael Scrase said Shayne Earl Gulka consented to be committed to trial on the murder charge as well as a kidnapping charge.

He had previously elected to be tried by a judge and jury in Court of Queen’s Bench.

Gulka is free on bail. He is expected to be arraigned and a trial date set on Dec. 5.

Scrase cross-examined two witnesses during the preliminary hearing in Red Deer provincial court.

Any evidence heard during the hearing is subject to a publication ban.

Preliminary hearings are optional and may be used to test part or all of the Crown’s evidence before proceeding to trial.

Gulka, 45, was charged in March in connection with the death of Bradley William Webber, 46, in a rural area northwest of Eckville.

RCMP allege that on Oct. 24, 2006 an unnamed man was kidnapped and forced to give up the whereabouts of an associate, who was living in a fifth wheel on a rural property.

Police say Webber was shot several times.

A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for a second suspect, Kevin Edward Brown, who has also been charged with first-degree murder and kidnapping. Brown remains at large, RCMP confirmed on Thursday.

ANIMAL CRUELTY

Couple plead guilty after 92 animals seized

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ALGARY — A Calgary couple have pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges in what is being called the largest animal seizure in the city’s history.

Anthony and Christine Berry were charged with causing unnecessary pain, suffering or injury to an animal and failing to provide suitable and adequate care to an animal.

Calgary Humane Society officers seized 92 animals from their home in a residential neighbourhood in 2014.

The animals included 69 rabbits, 21 hamsters, one cat and one dog that were in distress due to unsanitary conditions, untreated medical concerns and a lack of basic care.

Some of the animals were euthanized because they were in such poor condition.

The couple have each been fined $6,900 and are prohibited from ever owning more than one spayed or neutered cat or dog.

“While this case is disturbing, it is encouraging to see it being taken seriously by the courts,” Brad Nichols, a humane society spokesman said in a release Thursday.

“Considering the level of neglect and the fact the Berrys were rabbit enthusiasts who were heavily involved in the show community makes it that much more important to keep them away from animals for a significant period.”

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AGRICULTURE

CFIA destroying herd linked to TB cow in Alberta

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EDICINE HAT — Canada’s food safety watchdog is warning that more ranches may be quarantined as part of the investigation into a case of bovine tuberculosis found in cow that came from south-

eastern Alberta.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said only one case of the contagious bacterial disease has been discovered, but 30 ranches in the region remain under quarantine, and rules that restrict the movement of cattle.

Dr. Harpreet Kochhar, Canada’s chief veterinary

officer, said that number could change as the agency brings in more investigators to trace the movement of potentially exposed animals over the past five years, and do more on-farm tests.

The investigation involves a significant number of herds and is expected to take months, he said.

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TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT Cornerstone Youth Theatre actors perform in the production of ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ Saturday at the New Life Fellowship Church. This weekend the theatre group will again hit the stage with three public shows at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Cornerstone Youth Theatre is an educational children’s theater arts society for students ages 6-18 in Central Alberta.

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IN SHORT Woman accused of killing husband takes stand in her defence ST. PAUL — A woman accused of shooting her husband as he was lying on a couch has testified that in the days before his death, his drug use was so bad she couldn’t sleep and had become physically weak.

Deborah Doonanco, 53, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Kevin Feland in their home in the village of Glendon, Alta., in May 2014.

The prosecution has suggested that after shooting Feland twice, Doonanco set the house on fire to destroy the evidence.

The defence is arguing she suffered from battered woman syndrome and would have been killed if she hadn’t defended herself.

On Thursday, Doonanco testified Feland used drugs every day that week and that the sound of his torch as he inhaled the crack cocaine and then his pacing around the house all night kept her awake.

She estimated she had slept maybe three and a half hours in the whole week.

“I couldn’t eat, sleep, think, function, or talk to anyone,” she told court in St. Paul. “I was so weak.

I was sick of being sick.”

She said she couldn’t reach out for help because she feared what might happen.

“If he heard me say anything he’d say, ‘do not start with me or you’ll lose’ so I didn’t start anything. I just took it,” she testified.

“He said he will find me. He will kill me. I am his property and always will be.”

Court has been told the couple had been married and then divorced, but later reconciled.

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CSIS broke law by keeping sensitive metadata, Federal Court rules

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TTAWA — A Federal Court judge says Canada’s spy agency illegally kept potentially revealing electronic data about people over a 10-year period.

In a hard-hitting ruling made public Thursday, Justice Simon Noel said the Canadian Security Intelligence Service breached its duty to inform the court of its data-collection program, since the information was gathered using judicial warrants.

CSIS should not have retained the information since it was not directly related to threats to the security of Canada, the ruling said.

“Ultimately, the rule of law must prevail,” Noel wrote, adding, “without it, the actions of people and institutions cannot be trusted to accurately reflect the purpose they were entrusted to fulfil.”

CSIS crunched the data beginning in 2006 using a powerful program known as the Operational Data Analysis Centre to produce intelligence that can reveal specific, intimate details about people the spy service investigates, the judge said.

The improperly retained material was metadata — information associated with a communication, such as a telephone number or email address, but not the message itself.

However, it is difficult to determine the precise nature of the metadata involved due to heavy redactions to the 126-page court ruling.

At a hastily arranged news conference late Thursday, CSIS director Michel Coulombe said the spy service had halted all access to, and analysis of, the data in question while it thoroughly reviews the court decision.

“I deeply regret the court’s serious concerns with respect to meeting our duty of candour, and I commit to continuing my efforts, with the deputy

minister of justice, to address this concern,” Coulombe said.

Sifting through data can help CSIS identify patterns of movement, communication, behaviours, significant trends and links that are otherwise unidentifiable, he added.

The ruling said the CSIS data analysis grew out of the spy service’s concerns in the early 2000s that the information it collected was not being fully utilized and should be processed using more modern techniques.

That should not mean an expansion of the CSIS mandate approved by Parliament, Noel wrote.

“The evolution of technology is no excuse to flout or stretch legal parameters. When the information collected does not fall within the legal parameters delimiting the agency’s functions and actions, it cannot legally be retained.”

Noel said he considered ordering destruction of the relevant metadata collected since 2006, but decided against it because, in part, he did not hear legal arguments on the question.

He suggested it may be time to revisit the CSIS Act of 1984, which is “showing its age” in a technologically advanced world.

“Canada can only gain from weighing such important issues once again,” Noel wrote. “Canadian intelligence agencies should be provided the proper tools for their operations but the public must be knowledgeable of some of their ways of operating.”

It is the second time in three years the spy agency has felt the wrath of the court.

In a key 2013 ruling, Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley chastised CSIS over a request for warrants to track two Canadians with help from the Communications Security Establishment, Canada’s electronic spy agency.

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Province disbands ethics committee

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DMONTON — Alberta Party Leader Greg Clark says the death of a legislature committee tasked with overhauling democratic rules shows that when the going gets tough the NDP government pulls the parachute rip cord.

Democratic Renewal Minister Christina Gray decided this week to not renew the mandate of the all-party special ethics and accountability committee.

“I’m profoundly disappointed that the NDs have given up so quickly,” Clark said Thursday.

“We’re Albertans. We don’t give up when things get difficult. The NDs seem to give up when things get hard.”

The 17-member committee was created with great fanfare last year

as an attempt to join hands across the aisle and revitalize rules surrounding conflict of interest, elections, election financing and whistle-blowing.

Little work got done before the committee’s one-year mandate ended in September. Gray blamed the opposition for stalling any progress with filibusters and political game-playing.

“We wanted to take a collaborative approach,” Gray said Thursday.

“They fought against getting big money out of politics.”

Progressive Conservative member Richard Starke said election financing rules passed by the NDP majority on the committee favoured the New Democrat style of fundraising.

“Why doesn’t this minister simply admit that this committee was a sham designed by the NDP government to tilt the electoral playing field in its favour?” Starke said in question period.

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Alberta fleshes out plan to meet its renewable power targets

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ALGARY — The Alberta government plans to use revenues from its carbon levy on large emitters to help spur investment in green power.

Environment Minister Shannon Phillips outlined details of the Renewable Electricity Program on Thursday as she announced proposed legislation aimed at getting the province to its 30 per cent renewable target by 2030.

Currently, 10 per cent of the province’s power comes from renewables such as wind, solar and hydroelectric.

“Albertans are doers. We are leaders. When people say something can’t be done, we prove them wrong. We become the example the rest of the country and the world can follow,” Phillips told a conference held by the Canadian Wind Energy Association.

The program’s goal is to add 5,000 megawatts of renewable electricity capacity by 2030 through auctions run by the Alberta Electric System Operator.

The cost of the program — which the government expects to draw at least $10.5 billion in private sector investment and to create 7,200 jobs — will not be borne by ratepayers, but will be funded out of carbon revenues.

“In this way, we are turning emissions today into renewable energy tomorrow,” said Phillips.

Neither the government nor AESO provided an estimate of how much the program is expected to cost, as there

are many variables at play.

The first round of bidding for 400 megawatts in projects is to open early next year. The winners of those 20year contracts are to be announced toward the end of 2017.

To be eligible, projects must fit the federal government’s definition of renewable energy, be new or an expansion of an existing project, be bigger than five megawatts and be ready to operate by 2019.

Phillips said the first round will focus solely on which bidders can offer the best price. But in future phases there may be calls for indigenous participation or for projects to be built in specific regions.

The program is to include a mechanism to cover off any difference between a participant’s bid price and the pool price in the energy market.

Robert Hornung, president of the Canadian Wind Energy Association, said the program makes Alberta the most competitive jurisdiction for the industry.

“Wind energy investors are thinking about where they are going to invest in Canada over the next decade.

The first province they’re going to look at is Alberta.”

Kelly Matheson-King, chief operating officer at BlueEarth Renewables Inc., said the program makes Alberta more enticing for the Calgary-based company.

BlueEarth has solar, wind and hydroelectric projects operating or in development across Canada.

Gray said the government will go it alone and introduce a bill in the coming weeks on democratic accountability that will incorporate some of the committee’s work.

“We will be working to get big money out of politics.”

The committee finished and filed an interim report in September on suggested changes to whistleblower legislation. Work in other areas was finished to different degrees, but none was complete.

The committee’s opposition and NDP members angrily sparred this fall on election financing rules.

The opposition accused the NDP members of trying to tailor rules to prop up the party’s modest-budget, top-down fundraising model while squeezing constituency financing deemed critical to parties such as the Wildrose and the Progressive Conser-

vatives.

The eight NDP committee members voted as a block, as did the eight opposition members. That left chairwoman Jessica Littlewood, an NDP backbencher, to break the tie in the NDP’s favour.

At one point, Littlewood stepped down for one meeting after the opposition accused her of violating her neutrality by brokering back-channel deals to break the logjam.

Littlewood said she stepped down to move things forward, but did not act outside the traditional role of a committee chair.

The NDP committee majority also was criticized for passing a motion asking the legislature to approve a plan to reimburse political parties or candidates up to 50 per cent of their election expenses if they received 10 per cent or more of the vote.

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Ottawa aims to lower airfares by bolstering competition

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ONTREAL — The federal government plans to raise the cap on foreign ownership of Canadian airlines in a bid to drive down fares and offer travellers more choice.

Transport Minister Marc Garneau promised legislation that would allow foreigners to own up to 49 per cent of an airline in Canada, a jump from the current cap of 25 per cent. However, an individual foreign investor or group of foreign investors will still be capped at 25 per cent.

Garneau said loosening Canada’s foreign investment rules for airlines will spur competition and allow the launch of low-cost carriers.

“This can bring down airfares and it can also provide more destinations and more choice for consumers,” he told reporters Thursday after unveiling the government’s transportation plans for the coming decades.

The plan — responding to recommendations in a review of the Canada Transportation Act by former minister David Emerson — includes promised action on railway safety, drones, transportation emissions, coastal protections and development of transportation infrastructure in the North.

Until the legislation is changed, Garneau said he is granting exemptions that will allow aspiring discount airlines Canada Jetlines and Enerjet to land more international investors.

Canada Jetlines CEO Jim Scott said the move will allow the Vancou-

ver-based company to lock up investors so it can launch service next summer.

“Canada is the only G7 country that has not brought this airline model into its network,” he said.

Analyst Walter Spracklin of RBC Capital Markets said the change in ownership limits could allow start ups to pressure Air Canada and WestJet on domestic fares, but won’t have a “meaningful impact” on the competitive environment in Canada.

Air Canada and WestJet said the top issue facing the airline industry is high fees including airport rents, security surcharges and fuel taxes.

“We are disappointed the government has not signalled more clearly a willingness to meaningfully review aviation taxation and cost structure,” WestJet CEO Gregg Saretsky said.

He also said the government should negotiate foreign ownership limits with other countries instead of adopting a unilateral increase.

The minister said the government will also work to reduce waits at airport security to international standards by looking at new equipment and technology and the agency that oversees security.

As well, it will introduce an air passenger rights regime that will establish clear, minimum requirements so Canadians know when they are eligible for compensation in cases of oversold flights or lost luggage.

Garneau said the plan would pull ideas from dozens of other countries that have similar regimes.

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ONTREAL — As Quebec announced plans Thursday to hold an inquiry into freedom of the press and police surveillance of journalists, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said spying on reporters is not happening at the federal level.

The Quebec government said a public inquiry will be held against the backdrop of revelations that various forces monitored reporters’ phones for years.

A panel of experts that was announced earlier this week will have all the powers typically granted to a commission of inquiry, including being able to compel witnesses to testify, said Justice Minister Stephanie Vallee.

“We consider it’s important for the population of Quebec to trust their public institutions,” she said.

On Thursday, some of the reporters targeted by provincial police learned that authorities obtained years worth of phone logs.

Meanwhile, the controversy reverberated in Ottawa, where

Trudeau said monitoring of journalists does not take place.

Trudeau told reporters he immediately contacted RCMP and CSIS leadership after news broke about the Quebec surveillance.

“There is nothing of this sort happening at the federal level,” he said.

“We have actually very strong safeguards and protections in place to protect freedom of the press in the course of the business conducted by CSIS and the RCMP. “Not only is freedom of the press important, it’s one of the foundational safeguards of a free democracy, of a free society.”

Quebec’s two largest police forces admitted this week to keeping tabs on the phones of several journalists in recent years in attempts to identify the source of information leaks.

On Wednesday, provincial police said they had obtained court warrants to monitor the phones of six journalists in 2013 in an effort to track down a person alleged to have leaked sensitive wiretap information involving a prominent labour leader.

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f we want to create change in the world, we need to be truly informed.

A number of years ago, American philosopher and human rights advocate Noam Chomsky put forth the idea that, in Western society, the powers that be manipulate the media to “manufacture consent.” That is, they get people to focus on meaningless information or information that furthers their cause in order to keep the masses under control.

Some of Chomsky’s perspective rings true.

The most poignant example occurred during the Cold War. In the late 1970s, a horrendous genocide in Cambodia was very well reported. We all knew about the crimes committed by the communist Khmer Rouge. What we didn’t know, however, was that not far away in East Timor, a very similar genocide was taking place. The difference was that it was being carried out by Indonesia, an American ally.

Chomsky points out that mainstream media coverage of this atrocity was almost non-existent for nearly 25 years. It was not until Indonesian President Suharto began to fall from the good graces of western leaders in the late 1990s

that there was any significant coverage. And little of that drew attention to the fact that Suharto’s efforts were supported for many years by his allies.

After the Cold War, the trend to ignore significant global issues continued. In 1994 and 1995, we were glued to our televisions watching the O.J. Simpson trial, yet we largely ignored the genocide in Rwanda.

Even with the growth of the Internet and the freedom it allows us to find alternate news sources, we continue to focus on issues that are of little consequence, issues that simply fill our minds with insignificant information and make us complacent. It would appear that Chomsky is correct.

Yet many people in the media vehemently deny that there is any overt pressure put on them to “manufacture consent.” This has certainly been my experience as a freelance columnist. I have found editors quite happy to publish my material if what I provide is thought-provoking and well written.

At times, my topics are controversial and become a source of debate. But open and respectful discussion is one of the primary goals of freedom of the press.

So why is so much more written about the lifestyle of the Kardashians than about their efforts to draw attention to the dangers

of denying the genocide in their ancestral homeland of Armenia?

Perhaps the answer can be found in the fact that there is more of a market for trivial information that disguises itself as news than there is for information that can change the world. Perhaps the media is simply responding to the fact that, in order to survive — in today’s digital age — they have to give people what they want.

The argument that the media is simply responding to market demand doesn’t necessarily disprove Chomsky’s theory, but it does draw attention to the fact that we need to focus on education.

And the most important thing to teach our children is that we become what we think about. To be better people, we must focus not only on our goodness but also on our responsibility to become our very best. To make the world better, we need to focus on the real challenges before us and join with others in a spirit of harmony in bringing this about.

Do we want a world of mediocrity and complacency, or do we want a world of positive change?

Ultimately, that’s the decision that each of us has to make every day — and it depends a great deal on what we know.

Troy Media’s Gerry Chidiac is an award winning genocide educator and high school teacher.

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Morneau’s fiscal update merely a sketch F

or Halloween Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his son stole a page from the classic French children’s book The Little Prince. They went trick-or-treating as the pilot and the little prince.

On the next day, Finance Minister Bill Morneau plagiarized a chapter of the same book for his fiscal update.

“Draw me a sheep,” asks the little prince in his very first encounter with the narrator.

After a few failed Chantal attempts at coming Hébert up with a satisfactory depiction of the animal, the pilot hands the child a picture of a box and tells him the sheep is in it.

Stranded in the desert of a sluggish economy, Morneau has come up with a box of his own in the shape of a federal bank to finance major infrastructure projects.

It is little more than a sketch, leaving critics and supporters alike free to ascribe to it whatever features best suit their arguments.

Minutes after Morneau delivered his statement, the Conservatives and the New Democrats were already depicting the infrastructure plan as either redundant in the case of the first, or as a disguised

attempt to privatize Canada’s public infrastructures in the second.

It is a debate that will not be settled for years — to the probable delight of policy wonks.

The plan will not get off the ground until 2018. It will be a decade before Canadians can really assess the merits of the initiative. To rush to judgment this week is a mug’s game.

As it happens, Morneau’s announcement is also a political diversion.

For while Tuesday’s fiscal update was strong on charting a self-described virtuous course for a relatively distant future, it was eerily silent on some of the more immediate features of the fiscal landscape.

For instance, take the deficit.

The decision to embrace deficit financing so as to spend Canada out of a period of slow economic growth was the highlight of the first federal budget of the Justin Trudeau era.

In itself, a projected $29-billion budget shortfall last spring was not all that remarkable.

No party elected to office last Oct. would have balanced the books this year.

With his government’s political survival at stake and against the backdrop of a global economic crisis, Stephen Harper’s government ran a deficit that was almost twice as high in 2009.

A shift in attitude is what made budget 2016 a watershed Liberal

document.

The Conservatives over their recent decade in power approached deficits as necessary evils — to be banished at the first opportunity.

In this they were very much in the mainstream.

From the early 1980s until the books were balanced in the late ’90s, the deficit issue was constantly on the radar of successive federal governments.

Brian Mulroney struggled with deficits his entire time in office.

Deficit fighting became the defining mission of Jean Chrétien’s first mandate.

By contrast, Trudeau’s government wears its deficit like a badge of honour that it is ready to wear well into a second, and possibly, a third mandate.

If pressed, Morneau will hazard a ballpark figure on how much the federal government of 2028 would spend on infrastructures.

For the record, the Liberals would have to secure a rare fourth consecutive majority mandate to still be in power by then.

But when it comes to a timeline to return to balanced budgets or to reap significant economic benefits from the Liberal deficit financing policy, the government’s crystal ball fogs up.

On Tuesday, the minister’s statement to the House was silent on the deficit.

This may be the first time since

at least the late ’70s that a finance minister updates the country on the fiscal shape of a cash-short government without at least nodding in the direction of containing/ reducing/eliminating the deficit.

And yet, the months since the spring budget have not been kind to its forecast.

The billions set aside to cushion against a further deterioration of the federal finances have been swallowed up.

An event like the Brexit vote, the decision of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, has not helped.

A Donald Trump victory in the U.S. presidential election next week could similarly wreak havoc on Morneau’s projections.

For now, the Trudeau government is content to treat the budget deficit as a footnote.

Time will tell whether that is the equivalent of whistling past the fiscal graveyard.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer.

Letters to the editor THANKFUL I am proud to be part of Operation Legacy, in which members and graduates of The War Amps Child Amputee (CHAMP) Program pass on the Remembrance message to the younger generation. As Remembrance Day is fast approaching, I would like to pay special tribute to all men and women who have served in Canada’s military, and especially those who lost a limb or limbs in war.

I was born missing my right leg above the knee, and have learned to overcome this challenge thanks to programs put in place by amputee veterans of The War Amps.

I am thankful for war amputee veterans because they have helped pave the way for amputees in Canada. Because of them, the limbs we use today are much more sophisticated and adapted to our daily needs and activities. Even more importantly they fought for our country and our freedom. I am thankful for all they have done to make sure Canada remains a peaceful country.

On Remembrance Day, please take a moment to remember those who have and continue to serve. We com-

memorate their lives and share their stories so that their sacrifices will never be forgotten.

Kylie Besplug, Lethbridge

RESPONSE TO MLA LETTER I’d like to thank George Croome of Red Deer for (contacting) our office.

As all of you should be aware, we have an office in Red Deer and constituency assistants on staff to help our constituents with their concerns. I and my constituency office act as a bridge between the community of Red DeerSouth and the services offered by the Government of Alberta. Although the political process might seem frustrating and slow, please understand that government must take into consideration policies and procedures that affect all Albertans, not just individuals in our constituency, and sometimes that requires patience. In particular we empathize with Mr. Croome, who was looking specifically for a change in policy on the part of Alberta Health Services. We forwarded his concerns to the Ministry and I also consulted with the Minister of Health on this matter, as soon as we received a substantive response we relayed

that to Mr. Croome. I’m happy to say that the response outlined Alberta Health Service’s policy in regard to the drug that Mr. Croome was requesting information about. It also provided further information so he could approach the appropriate specialists who may be able to help him. While my role allows me to spend time in the constituency, it also requires me to spend a considerable amount of time representing the citizens of Red Deer working on Legislature committee work, attending public events and sitting in the Alberta Legislature. The people of Red Deer-South are my priority and my work reflects this.

Barb Miller, Red Deer-South MLA

THANK YOU RDC AND ADVOCATE For two years The Truth and Reconciliation Commission toured Canada to ferret out some of the life of many of the folks who were forced to attend the Indian Residential Schools. Now that some of the awful truths have been brought to our attention we need to work on the reconciliation part.

The Advocate has started by introducing a new columnist — Tanya

Ward-Schur, a Blackfeet-Métis lady who is executive director of the Native Friendship Society. Her column is called Coyote Tales.

The Red Deer College has appointed a new member to the board of governors of the Red Deer College. Her name is Charlene Burns of Ponoka — a former resident of one of these schools.

In her first article, Tanya WardSchur names “the seven sacred teachings of respect, honesty, humility, love, wisdom, truth and courage.”

Now a challenge.

I challenge our politicians, our would-be politicians, and you and I as citizens to live out those teachings.

For emphasis I will repeat them: respect, honesty, humility, love, truth and courage.

The hard part of The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: the reconciliation part was started in Red Deer by the Advocate and the college, and I thank both of you.

Alice Williamson, Red Deer

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AMPBELLTON, N.B. — An escaped python coiled itself around two young boys, strangling them and biting them repeatedly, a pathologist told the trial of the snake’s owner Thursday.

“Most of the puncture wounds were found on the face,” Dr. Marek Godlewski testified Thursday about injuries to Connor Barthe, six, at the criminal negligence trial of JeanClaude Savoie in Campbellton, N.B. Godlewski conducted autopsies on both Connor and his four-year-old brother, Noah, on Aug 6, 2013, a day after the snake killed them during a sleepover with Savoie’s son. He described each autopsy separately Thursday.

Godlewski found Connor suffered multiple puncture wounds, abrasions and bruises, as well as hemorrhages in his neck muscles, while Noah had multiple puncture wounds compatible with bites over his body. He says there was blood on Noah’s body.

Godlewski said the puncture wounds to Connor were consistent with snake bites.

“I do agree the pattern of the wounds (were) consistent with the pattern of the teeth of this snake,” he

testified.

The boys died as a result of the snake “coiling” around them, he said, with the specific cause of death being “asphyxia due to neck strangulation.”

There was evidence of “coiling” around Noah’s chest and neck, as well as marks on his face and nose, he said.

Savoie’s African rock python had escaped its enclosure. It’s believed the snake travelled through a ventilation duct and fell into the living room where the boys were sleeping.

Savoie’s own son, who was sleeping in a different room, was unharmed.

Earlier Thursday, John O’Brien, the boyfriend of the boys’ mother, testified he had noticed the cover for the ventilation duct on the floor of the python’s enclosure on several visits to the apartment — as recently as the week before the boys’ death.

The apartment was above a reptile store owned by Savoie.

The boys’ mother, Mandy Trecartin, lived next door to Savoie, and O’Brien said he came over the morning of the tragedy, pounded the door and shouted: “Oh my God, the kids are dead.”

O’Brien said he went to Savoie’s apartment, and found Trecartin’s sons dead on the floor.

“I checked for a pulse but there wasn’t anything. They were blue,” he testified.

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BBOTSFORD, B.C. — A pastor who works with marginalized groups in Abbotsford, B.C., says people living on the street are worried about being targeted in the wake of this week’s deadly high school stabbing.

Ward Draper says reports from police that the attacker was a barefoot homeless man will reinforce misguided stereotypes that these people are all angry, crazy and violent.

Draper says those prejudices are

not true and that the homeless are far more likely to be the victims of violence.

Police say a man walked into an Abbotsford high school Tuesday afternoon and stabbed two female students, killing one of them and putting the school on lockdown for hours.

Homicide investigators have released a picture of 21-year-old Gabriel Klein, who faces one charge each of second-degree murder and aggravated assault.

Police have not identified the victims, but fellow students say the teen killed in the school’s atrium was 13-year-old Letisha Reimer.

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Maryam Monsef said in September she had recently found out she was born in Iran and not in Afghanistan as her mother had always told her.

That prompted some people, including Conservative MP Tony Clement, to say she should step down from her position pending an inquiry into her citizenship application.

But Trudeau said people shouldn’t be mixing Monsef’s story with those

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of people who have lied to get into the country.

“People are mixing very different situations for political reasons,” he told reporters.

Trudeau said that sometimes when people are fleeing war — as in Monsef’s case — “there is not always perfect clarity on which side of the border one is born.”

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by Rafferty on appeal occurred: Appeal Court TORONTO — Ontario’s top court rejected all the arguments raised on appeal by the man who killed eight-year-old Victoria Stafford, ruling that the performance of the trial judge who handled the original case was “exemplary.”

The detailed written ruling released on Wednesday came just over a week after the Court of Appeal for Ontario orally dismissed Michael Rafferty’s appeal on the day it was argued in Toronto.

“The trial judge made none of the errors that the appellant has raised. On the contrary, his handling of a difficult trial was, in our view, exemplary,” the court wrote in the ruling laying out its reasons for dismissing the appeal.

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SASKATOON — Police in Saskatoon are investigating whether an officer’s use of force contributed to a 21-year-old suspect’s death.

Chief Clive Weighill says the offi-

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Jordan Lafond was a passenger in a stolen truck involved in a police chase on Oct. 23.

Weighill says police believed he was trying to resist arrest and one officer used his knee to take the suspect into custody.

Lafond died in hospital the next morning.

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IN SHORT Discovery of liquid fentanyl a ‘game changer’ for front-line cops A police force in Ontario is revamping the way officers handle street drugs after learning that a substance seized during a drug raid was liquid fentanyl, a highly powerful opioid that can be easily absorbed through the skin.

Hamilton police Det. Const. Adam Brown said he and other officers came across a vial of the drug during a raid in May, but at the time they believed it contained GHB — also known as a date-rape drug.

The members of the force’s vice and drug unit wore protective gear to handle all the substances they came across during the raid, Brown said, which also included hash, marijuana, cocaine and oxycodone pills.

Police sent a sample of the suspected GHB to Health Canada for testing and the results showed it was actually liquid fentanyl.

“I was never afraid that if I got a little of this stuff on my skin that I would ever be worried about death — that was never a concern for me, now it is,” Brown said. “It’s a complete game changer for us and it’s scary because you don’t know what concentration this is.”

Brown said Health Canada notified Hamilton police about its analysis in July, but he didn’t realize its significance until after he returned from a recent conference about fentanyl hosted by Calgary police.

“It was from that conference that I put two and two together and reached out to Health Canada and an RCMP officer,” Brown said. “It turns out fentanyl had never been seen in a liquid solution on the illicit market in Canada.”

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TTAWA — Sometimes when she goes to the grocery store, all Alia Pierini can do is sit in the parking lot, unable to bear the idea of going inside.

She tries a different store, but Pierini, 31, often ends up coming home without the food she had planned to buy for lunch.

“I feel like a big loser, to be honest, but I can’t help it,” the former prisoner told a news conference Thursday as she described the lingering anxiety, panic and fear she still feels as a result of months spent alone in solitary confinement.

Pierini, from Chilliwack, B.C., was behind bars for 44 months after she was convicted on drug and assault charges. The last stretch of time she spent in solitary lasted a full eight months.

Even though she was released nine years ago, she still remembers feeling depressed and anxious as the thoughts swirled around inside her head.

She remembers being given three squares of toilet paper to use for an entire day.

And she remembers feeling like she wanted to die.

“Sitting in a cage is not meant for a human,” said Pierini, who took part in a CBC reality television show hosted by Kevin O’Leary called Redemption, Inc. Now a regional advocate for female prisoners in federal custody, Pierini joined the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, which provides support for women and girls in the justice system, in calling on the Liberal government to reduce the number of women behind bars.

The association’s longtime executive director, Kim Pate — newly recommended for the Senate by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — urged the government to give judges the discretion to overturn or alter the mandatory minimum sentences brought in by the previous Conservative government.

Pate also recommended making more use of sections of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act that allow federal inmates to be transferred to a provincial facility — or a hospital, such as in cas-

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Alia Pierini attends a news conference where prisoners’ rights advocates called on the Liberal government to take steps to reduce the number of women behind bars, in Ottawa, Thursday. Pierini says she still suffers from anxiety as a result of the time she spent in solitary confinement. es of mental illness — and for aboriginal communities to provide their own correctional services.

“The challenge has been inadequate supports,” said Pate, who called on the government to focus more on prevention.

“We need to be looking at those individuals who are in the community and are at risk of being marginalized, victimized, criminalized and institutionalized and stem that tide.”

Pate also said she was “heartened” to see Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould given a mandate to restrict the use of solitary confinement and improve the treatment of prisoners with mental illness by implementing recommendations from the Ashley Smith inquest.

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He doesn’t know if humans causing climate change KINDER MORGAN CANADA PRESIDENT IAN ANDERSON ADDRESSES THE ISSUE

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ANCOUVER — The president of the company that hopes to build the $6.8-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion says he doesn’t know whether humans are contributing to climate change.

Kinder Morgan Canada president Ian Anderson told the Vancouver Board of Trade on Thursday that there is disagreement about the degree to which people influence global warming.

“I’ve read the science on both sides and I don’t pretend to be smart enough to know which is right,” he said.

“What I do know is the broad public, political view, societal view, is that over time, we as a race should reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. I think that’s a given.”

He made the remark during an on-stage interview after delivering a keynote speech titled, Pipeline Success: Getting to Yes Takes a Willingness to Listen and Learn.

Anderson reiterated his comments later to reporters, but said he accepts public opinion that over time the impact of fossil fuels should be minimized.

“What I’m saying is: I don’t know enough to make that personal evaluation. I know there are arguments on both sides,” he said. “I just know what public and private opinion are and I’m prepared to accept that.”

There is broad scientific consensus about the cause of climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations body that assesses the work of hundreds of scientists from across the globe, has concluded that human influence on the climate is clear.

Andrew Weaver, a climate scientist who was a lead author in several of the panel’s scientific assessments, said the problem with Anderson’s statement is that there isn’t science on both sides. There is ideology on one side and science on the other, he said.

“The science is clear. It’s been clear for decades,” said Weaver, who is also Leader of British Columbia’s Green Party and a member of the legislative assembly. “The fact that (Anderson) could say he’s read the science on both sides suggests to me he doesn’t understand what science is.”

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers “absolutely” believes humans are contributing to climate change, said Alex Ferguson, vice-president of policy and performance, in an interview.

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Kinder Morgan Canada President Ian Anderson adjusts his reading glasses before addressing the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, in Vancouver on Thursday.

But he said the issue of whether climate change is man-made or not is irrelevant to the amount of effort its members are putting into curbing it. Companies have spent billions on advancing technology to minimize emissions from Alberta’s oilsands, he said.

“We know the effects of climate change are severe for people and the economy and the environment,” he said. “Whoever caused it, you would still want to fix it.”

Simon Donner, a climatology professor at the University of British Columbia, said not everyone has to be an expert on climate change. But Anderson’s remark was “disturbing” because it suggests he is not reading or watching information from actual experts.

“To be an influential person running an organization that’s a part of the big energy decisions in this country that are going to affect our ability to

meet our climate targets — to be ignorant on the issue is to me, embarrassing.”

Also on Thursday, the federal government released a report by a ministerial panel tasked with doing additional consultation on the project. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet is expected to make a decision on the project before Dec. 19.

The expansion would triple the bitumen-carrying capacity of the pipeline that runs from near Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C., and increase the number of tankers leaving Vancouver waters seven-fold.

Though the title of his speech was “Getting to Yes,” Anderson noted at the outset that he didn’t want to be presumptuous as the company was nowhere near a “yes” yet.

He said if the project is approved, the company will need three years to finish regulatory work, and the pipeline wouldn’t be finished until at least 2019.

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ALGARY — A panel struck last May to identify gaps in reviews of the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion says the government must answer six key questions before deciding the fate of the $6.8-billion project.

In its report released Thursday, the three-member panel, which heard from thousands of people

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Instead, it said the government must ask itself questions such as how construction of the pipeline can be reconciled with Canada’s climate change commitments and how the government can be confident in its decision given “perceived flaws” in the National Energy Board and other regulatory processes.

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Bell’s CraveTV grows to 1M subscribers ahead of Shomi’s demise

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ORONTO — Weeks before TV streaming service Shomi is set to shut down, BCE Inc. said Thursday its CraveTV streaming service recently hit one million sub-

scribers.

The Montreal-based company said it reached the milestone by the end of September, nearly two years after it launched CraveTV in December 2014.

At the time, the streaming service was only available to subscribers of certain TV providers.

This January, Bell Media expanded availability to all Canadians with an Internet connection.

Bell Media hasn’t provided total subscriber numbers since August 2015, when it said the service had roughly 730,000 customers.

In a conference call Thursday with investors, BCE president and CEO George Cope suggested that the demise of Shomi, a video-on-demand service Rogers (TSX:RCI.B) and Shaw (TSX:SJR.B) launched in November 2014, can boost CraveTV’s performance.

Shomi, which recently said it was nearing a customer base of 900,000, will pull the plug on Nov. 30.

“We think the Canadian development recently probably positions that product a little stronger in the marketplace,” Cope said.

Still, CraveTV has a long way to go to match the reach of Netflix. Solutions Research Group, a Toronto consumer research firm, says the U.S.-based streaming company has about five million Canadian households subscribing.

BCE (TSX:BCE) also announced Thursday that Fibe TV now is available on Apple TV. BCE said CraveTV’s performance helped drive its media division revenue up 3.5 per cent in the third quarter ending Sept. 30. Bell Media revenues grew to $716 million from $692 million, also thanks to subscriber growth from The Movie Network, which Bell made nationally available earlier this year, and TV Everywhere.

BCE’s revenue and profit were up from the same time last year as Bell Canada added subscribers to specialty TV, digital TV, Internet and wireless services — offsetting lower revenue from advertising and conventional phone service.

The telecommunications giant had $5.41 billion of operating revenue, up 1.2 per cent from $5.35 billion in the third quarter of 2015.

Net earnings for common shareholders totalled $752 million, up 1.8 per cent from $739 million a year earlier, although net income per share was flat at 87 cents because of an increase in the number of BCE shares since last year.

BCE’s adjusted earnings declined by nearly one

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George Cope, president and CEO of BCE Inc., addresses the company’s annual meeting earlier this spring in Montreal. The company has added one million subscribers to its CraveTV following the demise of Shomi. per cent, to $784 million from $790 million, and adjusted earnings per share declined to 91 cents per share from 93 cents per share.

Bell’s wireless services contributed $1.85 billion

of revenue, up 4.3 per cent from $1.77 billion, while revenue from its wireline services such as conventional phones, digital television and Internet was little-changed at $2.75 billion.

Agrium and PotashCorp shareholders overwhelmingly approve merger

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ALGARY — Shareholders of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan and Agrium Inc. have voted overwhelmingly in favour of an all-stock merger.

At separate special meetings Thursday, PotashCorp shareholders voted more than 99 per cent in favour of the deal while more than 98 per cent of Agrium shareholders voted for it.

The companies say the deal, announced in early September, should bring upwards of US$500

STORY FROM PAGE 17 “The questions raised by his own panel, about how Canada can square this pipeline with climate commitments and promises to respect Indigenous rights, remain unanswered,” said environmentalist Clayton Thomas-Muller of 350.org in a statement.

In its response to the report, Greenpeace Canada issued a public invitation to civil disobedience training sessions it plans to host across Canada, including one next week in Vancouver.

“Trudeau’s election platform promised that while governments hand out permits, only communities can grant permission,” said campaigner Earyn Wheatley.

“This workshop will show how you can withdraw your consent in ways that the government can’t ignore.”

million in annual cost savings for the combined firm with US$20.6 billion in expected net revenue.

If the deal goes through, PotashCorp shareholders will own about 52 per cent of the new company while Agrium shareholders will hold the remaining 48 per cent.

The company would be headquartered in PotashCorp’s hometown of Saskatoon while maintaining a corporate office in Calgary where Agrium is based.

The merger brings together PotashCorp’s extensive fertilizer mining operations with Agrium’s global direct-to-farmer retail network.

In a brief statement, Trans Mountain said it supports the government’s process to encourage participation from Canadians.

The ministerial panel report released Thursday

by Natural Resources Canada posed the question of how, in the absence of a national energy strategy, any project can be effectively assessed. It also asked how the government can meet its commitment to gain consent from First Nations for major projects.

The government must also answer what pipeline route best ensures safety and how federal policy defines terms such as “social licence” and “Canadian public interest,” the panel wrote.

Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr said in a statement the report will be an “important element” in the government’s decision.

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Edmonton Oilers centre Ryan Nugent-Hopkins shoots the puck to score a goal on New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist, during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Thursday, at Madison Square Garden in New York.

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EW YORK — Kevin Hayes, J.T. Miller and Michael Grabner have formed a very productive line this season and came through with another big night for the high-scoring New York Rangers.

Rick Nash scored the tiebreaking goal with 1:21 remaining to lead the Rangers to a 5-3 victory over the Western Conference-leading Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night. Hayes had a goal and two assists, and Grabner and Miller each had a goal and an assist.

“We just bring a different element to the line, every one (of us),” Grabner said. “I think it’s been going pretty good and hopefully we can keep it up.”

Jesper Fast also scored for New York, which rallied from three one-goal deficits, and won for the sixth time in seven games. Nick Holden had two assists and Henrik Lundqvist stopped 21 shots.

The Rangers lead the NHL in scoring at 4.09 goals per game. The addition of Grabner, signed in the off-season, has played a big part as his line totalled seven points in this game, and has combined for 14 goals and 15 assists on the season.

“Ever since that line was put together they’ve probably been our most productive line,” Rangers coach Alain Vigneault said. “A lot of it has to do with decision-making of the two other guys, but Grabs’ speed probably scares the opposition a little bit.

“They played a real strong game. I played them a good portion of the game

against their top two lines and I thought they did a real good job for us all night long.”

On the go-ahead goal, Holden fired a shot from the point that was blocked

by Edmonton’s Milan Lucic. Nash corralled the loose puck in front of the net and fired it past Oilers goalie Cam Talbot for his 399th goal. It gave the Rangers their first lead of the game.

Miller added an empty-netter 17 seconds later. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Patrick Maroon and Adam Larsson scored for the Oilers, who lost their third straight (0-2-1) after starting the season 7-1-0. Talbot made 26 saves in his first game against the Rangers since being traded to Edmonton on June 27, 2015 “Little things happened here and there, little breakdowns,” Nugent-Hopkins said. “They’re definitely a team that capitalizes on mistakes, and we knew that coming in. We tried to limit those as much as we could. When there’s a breakdown, they take advantage of it.”

Larsson put the Oilers ahead 3-2 at 8:49 of the third with a slap shot from the point for his first goal of the season.

Fast tied it 42 seconds later as Brandon Pirri fired a shot from the point and Fast, streaking across in front, tipped it past Talbot for his first of the season.

The Oilers took a 2-1 lead just past midway through the second as Jesse Puljijarvi skated up the right side and toward the net, waited while New York defenceman Dan Girardi went sliding by on his back, and backhanded the puck to Maroon, who fired it past Lundqvist.

Grabner tied it with 4:14 left in the middle period with his sixth of the

season. Hayes brought the puck up the right into the corner, dropped it to Miller, who sent it in front of the goal and Grabner fought off Larsson and sent a wrister past Talbot.

“In the first couple of periods we were kind of feeding their transition game, turning pucks over, and making mistakes,” Grabner said. “I think everyone on the ice, and in the stands, could see that, so it was nice to tie it up there.”

Nugent-Hopkins got the Oilers on the scoreboard first with his first of the season as Jordan Eberle’s centring pass from the left corner deflected off Connor McDavid’s skate to Nugent-Hopkins, who fired it in from the right side of the net at 6:36. McDavid’s assist gave the Oilers’ 19-year-old captain at least a point against every NHL team he’s faced other than Carolina. He has yet to play Boston, Chicago, Florida, Pittsburgh and Tampa Bay. Hayes tied it about two minutes later as Grabner got the rebound of Brady Skjei’s point shot and sent a nifty pass across the front of the goal to Hayes, who fired it into the wide-open net.

NOTES: Edmonton’s Todd McLellan coached his 632nd game, moving past Terry Crisp for sole possession of 50th place on the NHL career list. Scotty Bowman tops the list with 2,141 games. … Oilers LW Benoit Pouliot, who was on the Rangers’ 2013-14 Stanley Cup final team, played in his 495th career game. … The teams conclude their season series Nov. 13 at Edmonton. … Ryan McDonagh snapped an eight-game points streak, which was the longest by a Rangers defenceman since Brian Leetch had a 14-game streak from Oct. 30-Dec. 1, 1996.

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rowing up Zach Blakely was full of energy.

As a result his mother Mary-Jo decided to enrol him with the Thunder Country Gymnastics and Trampoline Club in Red Deer.

“She was hoping I’d Danny wear some of that enRode ergy off … but I’m still energetic,” Blakely said with a laugh.

But what Mary-Jo didn’t know at the time was that Zach would develop into one of the top young trampoline competitors in the country.

The 17-year-old has been named to the Canadian national junior team, along with Thunder Country teammate Kalena Soehn.

Blakely joined the Thunder Country rec program in 2005, and by 2007, he was in the competitive division.

“I enjoyed the sport, and when I was seven, I looked at the competitive side and figured why not give it a try,” he explained.

He never regretted it and moved up the ranks quickly. By the time he was 11 he was doing double flips and five years later was doing triples.

“It was a good progression,” he said.

It was when he started doing double flips that he felt he could go places in the sport.

“I felt I was doing OK and because I was doing well in school I had more time to train as hard as I could,” said Blakely, who is in Grade 12 at Hunting Hills. “I’m still fortunate my schooling goes well, and so I have the time to train.”

He’s also fortunate to train with two of the premier trampoline and double-mini trampoline (DMT) athletes in the country in Kyle and Keegan Soehn.

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ON THE ICE WHL Goaltender Of The Week Kootenay Ice netminder Payton Lee received the WHL goaltender of the week award, ending Oct. 30. The 20-year-old Lee is in his first season with the Ice after spending three seasons Payton with the Vancouver Giants and splitting Lee past season between Vancouver and the Edmonton Oil Kings. Last week the six-foot-one, 192-pound native of New Westminster, B.C., had a 1.50 goals-against-average (gaa) and a .957 save percentage in two games.

He is third among WHL goaltenders with a .935 save percentage. He has a 3-1-3-1 record. During his four-year career he had posted a 65-87-10-5 record, a 3.34 gaa and an .888 save percentage and six shutouts in 178 games.

Players Of The Month Regina Pats forward Sam Steel and Saskatoon Blades netminder Logan Flodell were named the WHL players of the month for September and October. Steel, an 18-year-old product of Logan Sherwood Park, had Flodell 22 points (10g, 12a) in 11 games and helped the Pats to a 10-0-3-0 record. The Anaheim Ducks draft pick earned first star honours twice and second star honours three times. The sixfoot, 180-pound centre will compete for the WHL in the 2016 CIBC Russia Series, Nov. 7 in Prince George and Nov. 8 in Edmonton. Lodell put together a record of 6-3-0-0 with a 1.99 gaa and a .940 save percentage, with two shutouts. The Regina native has allowed two goals or fewer in six of his nine starts while facing 35 or more shots on four occasions. He was named an all-star seven times — three firsts and two seconds and thirds.

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League joins Pats in lease negotiations DEADLINE FOR HOSTING 100TH MEMORIAL CUP EXTENDED

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on Robison shares the Regina Pats’ sense of urgency to complete a new lease agreement at the Brandt Centre.

That’s why the WHL commissioner has agreed to step in and help restart negotiations between the Pats and the Regina Exhibition Association Ltd. (REAL), which operates the arena and other facilities at Evraz Place.

“We remain optimistic that something can get done, but we’re here to assist in that process to ensure that happens in a timely fashion,” Robison said from his office in Calgary. “I’ve been asked by the Pats and by Evraz Place to assist with the negotiations.

We are happy to do so because we’re obviously anxious to get something completed very soon.”

The Pats originally had until Oct. 31 to reach an agreement so they could proceed with a formal application to the CHL for the 2018 Memorial Cup. That deadline has now been extended by 30 days.

As previously reported by the Regina Leader-Post, the Pats will indeed serve as the Western representative in the selection process for the 100th Memorial Cup. They’ll be officially introduced next week along with finalists from the OHL and QMJHL. Meanwhile, the Pats have been granted some leeway to complete their lease negotiations before the final bids are presented to a national selection committee. If the sides can’t come to terms, the team would be forced to withdraw from consider-

ation.

“There is urgency, there’s no question,” said Robison, who emphasized that he would prefer to conclude negotiations before the end of November. “There needs to be something done very soon. Any bid for a Memorial Cup or any major international event requires a confirmed lease.

“The intent here is to negotiate something that can be a long-term lease that will serve the new ownership of the Pats and their desire to take a more active role in the facility.

That’s going to require some adjustment on behalf of Evraz Place, but at the end of the day, we want to get to a point where it’s going to be fair and equitable for both parties.”

The Pats have continued to operate under the terms of their previous lease, which expired on May 31.

Among other things, the old deal does not entitle the club to a share of concession sales from WHL games at the Brandt Centre.

Calling it “one of the most onerous leases in the Western Hockey League,” Pats co-owner Anthony Marquart has stated that the team is looking for an agreement that falls in line with other mid-sized WHL markets.

In the absence of any meaningful progress to date, the Pats have issued a formal request to the City of Regina — which owns the Brandt Centre — for assistance in stimulating negotiations.

Mayor Michael Fougere, who was re-elected on Wednesday, told the Leader-Post last week that his office would not intervene in lease talks.

However, Robison is still hoping to get all the stakeholders together in one room.

‘THE INTENT HERE IS TO NEGOTIATE SOMETHING THAT CAN BE A LONG-TERM LEASE THAT WILL SERVE THE NEW OWNERSHIP OF THE PATS AND THEIR DESIRE TO TAKE A MORE ACTIVE ROLE IN THE FACILITY. THAT’S GOING TO REQUIRE SOME ADJUSTMENT ON BEHALF OF EVRAZ PLACE, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE WANT TO GET TO A POINT WHERE IT’S GOING TO BE FAIR AND EQUITABLE FOR BOTH PARTIES.’ RON ROBISON WHL COMMISSIONER

“The city certainly has an interest in it, as we do,” said Robison. “If we can assist in those negotiations I think it’s important that we are there to do so. Given the urgency of these negotiations to get completed, it would be important for the city to participate along with the league.”

This will mark at least the third time Robison has been forced to intervene in a dispute between the Pats and REAL, who have a long history of acrimonious lease negotiations.

After helping broker deals in 2001 and 2008, Robison hopes the current impasse can be settled before it reaches the point of no return from a Memorial Cup perspective.

“We prefer not to be involved in lease negotiations,” he added. “It’s rare that we are involved in helping the two parties come to an agreement but we’re prepared to do whatever is necessary to arrive at a point that is going to work for both parties. In this particular case we have the advantage of understanding the situation quite well, the history. We’re hopeful we can come to an agreement very soon.”

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Red Deer minor hockey product Luke Coleman is now in his second full season with the Prince Albert Raiders in the Western Hockey League.

WHL

Coleman finding success by using size, putting pressure on the puck carrier

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

L

uke Coleman could have been disappointed when his name wasn’t called during the 2016 NHL Entry

Draft.

After all, he went into the draft ranked 169th on some boards, which would had him in the seventh round.

But when his name wasn’t called the Prince Alberta Raiders power forward wasn’t about to let it bother him.

“I didn’t happen, but I was invited to the Detroit Red Wings camp,” said the 18-year-old Red Deer native.

Coleman attended the camp along with one of his best friends and Red Deer Rebels centre Jeff de Wit. “It was good. I thought I had a good camp and it was a great experience,” Coleman said. “All they said when I left was to have a good year and go through the draft again.”

Coleman, who is in his second full season with the Raiders, is off to a solid start this season with five goals and an assist in 14 games. Last year, he had 13 goals and 16 helpers in 70 games.

“I think personally it’s going good and the team is coming along,” he said. “We’re off to a tough start (4-111-0), but I believe we have the talent

and it will just take some work.”

And work is what describes Coleman’s game. The six-foot-two, 200-pound winger has always played a physical game as he came up through the Red Deer minor hockey system and into junior.

“I try to play the game fast and physical,” he said. “I try to put pressure on the puck and use my size. I’ve always played like that.”

Coleman played two seasons in the Red Deer bantam AAA program, scoring 17 goals and 24 assists in 32 games his second year. He played the season under head coach Kevin Smyth, who was an big influence on his career.

“He played a lot like I do, and helped me a lot with my game,” he said.

Coleman was a fifth round draft pick (104th overall) by the Raiders in the 2013 WHL Bantam Draft.

He played the 2013-14 season with the Red Deer Northstar Chiefs in minor midget and had 24 goals and 21 assists. He was called up late in the season to the midget AAA Optimist Chiefs, playing four games. The following season he didn’t make the Raiders so he returned to the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs and worked with head coach Brandon Cote, who is now with Prince Albert. In 27 games he had eight goals and 12 assists.

Late that season he played one game with the Camrose Kodiaks in the Alberta Junior Hockey League, then jumped to Prince Albert where he played 14 games and scored once.

“I had a friend going to Camrose ,and I was interested in junior so I played a game with them,” he explained. “But after, I knew the WHL was for me.”

Coleman was pleased with his rookie season with the Raiders, but also knew he had work to do.

“I had the size, but I knew I had to be in better shape, leaner and quicker,” he said. “I worked hard on that and still do. I still really focus on being disciplined and working hard.

That definitely helps my game.”

One of Coleman’s highlight games came last year in Red Deer, when he had a goal and two assists in a 3-2 win.

“That was certainly a memorable game, probably my biggest memory as it was in my home town and in front of my family and friends.”

As for the future Coleman would like to get drafted this year, but knows it’s not something he can control.

“I think about it, but mainly I just focus on my game and do what I can do. It will work out.”

Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be

Turner Elson joined the Red Deer Rebels for the 2009-10 season as a free agent. Elson was born in New Westminster, B.C., but came up through the St. Albert minor hockey system. The smooth-skating forward played bantam AA in 2005-06, finishing with seven goals and eight assists in 26 games. The following season he was with the bantam AAA program and had 10 goals and nine helpTurner ers in 30 games. After Elson a season with the minor midget Flyers he played a season with the midget AAA Raiders, scoring 11 goals and adding 12 assists in 33 games. He played four seasons with the Rebels and progressed offensively each season. But what he did have was outstanding leadership and finished his career as the Rebels captain.

His best season offensively was his last in 2012-13 when he had 26 goals and 31 assists in 64 games. Elson was signed by the Calgary Flames organization as a free agent in 2-11 and saw action with the Flames AHL team, the Abbotsford Heat, following the Rebels seasons in 201112 and 2012-13. He played 37 games with the Heat in 2013-14, scoring twice and adding an assists, he also spent 18 games with the Alaska Aces that season and had five goals and 10 helpers. In 2014-15 he was back in the AHL with the Adirondack Flames and had 17 goals and 13 assists in 59 games. In 2-015-16 he got his first taste of NHL action, playing one game with the parent Flames and recorded an assists against the Minnesota Wild. The rest of the season — 59 games — he was with the Stockton Heat, scoring 17 goals and 13 assists. Following the season the six-foot-, 194-pound Elson wasn’t qualified by the Flames and released, signing as a free agent with the Colorado Avalanche.

WHL Player Of The Week Spokane Chiefs third-year forward Kailer Yamamoto has been selected the WHL player of the week, ending Oct. 20. The five-footnine, 160-pound right winger had three goals and four assists in four games, helping the Chiefs to a 3-0-1-0 record. The Spokane native had a goal and two helpers Kailer in a 6-2 win over the Moose Jaw Warriors, Yamamoto then was named the first star and had a pair of assists in a 6-2 win over the Saskatoon Blades.

He picked up an assists in a 4-2 win over the Prince Albert Raiders and finished the week with one assist and the third star in a 3-2 overtime loss to the Swift Current Broncos.

Yamamoto is tied for second in the WHL scoring race with 23 points (10g, 13a) in15 games.

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Partnership to provides scholarships to Canadian athletes IN SHORT Foundation accepting applications for financial help

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Olympic trampoline champion Rosie MacLennan knows first-hand how difficult it can be to balance education with her athletic pursuits.

She has had to juggle her studies at the University of Toronto with making the regular commute to her trampoline club north of the city for fourhour training sessions.

MacLennan, who successfully defended her Olympic title last summer in Rio, said she feels fortunate to be in a situation where she can concentrate on her education as well as her sport.

Not all athletes have the same opportunities. That’s one of the reasons why the Canadian Olympic Committee has teamed with the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University for an eight-year strategic partnership that will provide scholarships for COC athletes.

“This has created a whole new realm of support,” MacLennan said.

“I think it’s great knowing when you’re training — and whether you use it during your career or after — it’s there. I don’t want to say it’s like a safety net, but it’s a resource you can tap into when you’re ready. It’s very open so that you can tailor it to what your needs are.”

Up to 1,200 elite athletes, under the COC’s Game Plan program, will be eligible for scholarships in a broad range of programs. There are satellite campus options and athletes who are still training may be able to take advantage of flexible learning options.

MacLennan, 28, has an undergraduate degree in physical education and health. She recently took a year off from school, but has picked things up again and hopes to complete her master’s degree in exercise science

by June.

“It was tough at times,” she said.

“You always have to set out the immediate priority. If worlds was coming up, then obviously training and competing was the priority. Right after the Olympics, it was a great time to

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BLAKELY: Lucky and grateful “I’m lucky to have the resources I do and grateful to be able to work with them and have them as role models,” he said. “They are the bench mark I compare myself to, and the level I set for myself.”

Blakely competes mainly in trampoline and DMT and occasionally in synchronized trampoline.

“Synchro is fun, but usually I have

The Red Deer Games Foundation is accepting applications for financial assistance for Red Deer and area athletes.

The foundation provides financial assistance to individuals demonstrating a high level of ability and strong devotion to their sport.

Previous recipients include local Olympians Jeremy Wotherspoon, Danielle Wotherspoon, Regan Lauscher, Drew Goldsack and Deidre Dionne and three-time world champion Elliott Moskowy.

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Canadian Olympic Committee CEO Chris Overholt makes a partnership announcement with the Smith School of Business, in Toronto on Thursday.

2018 Brier awarded to Regina

really buckle down and focus on getting school (work) done. It’s constantly juggling, but I think it really teaches you time management, and to work efficiently.

“When you have an hour, you’ve got to get it done in an hour, and you do. I think those are all skills that are translatable into careers after sport.

But it was definitely challenging at times.”

MacLennan was joined by canoeist Ben Russell, high jumper Nicole Forrester, swimmer Benoit Huot and other Canadian athletes for Thursday’s announcement.

“The COC is committed to providing Canada’s athletes with the tools they need to be successful on and off the field of play,” said COC chief executive officer Chris Overholt. “Our first-ever partnership with an academic institution marks a significant step towards this commitment. We simply cannot ask our athletes to set aside their personal goals and aspi-

rations for sport and for Canada and then not have a plan for them after they are done. We are excited to partner with such a world-class business school.”

Scholarships will be available in a broad range of programs, including the business graduate diploma, the master of entrepreneurship and innovation, and a number of MBA programs.

“I think it’s just another resource and I think it’s a really valuable one,” MacLennan said. “I think a lot of athletes, especially as they get to the end of their career, do see the value in education and how it can help that transition be smoother going into your next step.”

The COC said it will also invest in enhanced leadership training with the Smith School for committee staff and other sporting community members through customized and open enrolment executive education programs.

Regina will host the Tim Hortons Brier in 2018.

Curling Canada announced Thursday that the Canadian men’s curling championship will be staged at the Brandt Centre, home of the Western Hockey League’s Regina Pats, from March 3-11.

“Curling’s roots go deep in the province of Saskatchewan, and based on past history, I have no doubt that the city of Regina will embrace the 2018 Tim Hortons Brier,” said Peter Inch, chair of the Curling Canada board of governors. “The Tim Hortons Brier is the world’s most famous curling championship, and Regina is in for a memorable nine days of thrilling action, on and off the ice.”

The arena also has a significant history of hosting major curling events — most recently, the 2011 world men’s curling championship, won by Canada’s Jeff Stoughton.

partners who are younger or older than I am,” he said. “What you need is a partner close to your skill level. I do know there is less pressure on me when I’m the bigger guy in the pair.

When you’re younger, and smaller you don’t want to let your partner down and feel that pressure.”

Blakely teamed with Ashton Henfrey to win the level 5 novice synchro title at the Canada Cup in Kamloops.

He was second in DMT and fifth on the trampoline at the junior level.

He also competed at the junior level at the Canadian championships in Edmonton, taking third on the trampoline and second in DMT. He won both competitions at the provincials and competed for Canada at the 2016 Indo Pacific Championships in

Napier, New Zealand, winning gold in the 17-and-over trampoline and bronze on the DMT. “It was good competition. There were five countries with Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Japan along with Canada.”

Blakely has also competed at the World age group championships in Denmark last year.

“I didn’t do as well as I would have liked on the trampoline. In DMT I was first in my flight and I felt confident as I went for something to eat.

When I got back I was passed mainly by some Russian athletes and was 10th.”

Blakely will continue to compete for the junior national team and will go to Bulgaria for the World finals

next year. He also has his sights set on making the senior national team.

“That’s my next goal,” he said.

He will graduate from high school in June and hasn’t fully decided what is ahead of him.

“I had thought about going to the University of Alberta, but continue to train with Thunder Country,” he said.

“It would mean driving back and forth, but I’d do it. Or I may go to Red Deer College, It would be cheaper and I’d be here … so we’ll see.”

Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@ reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at Danny’s blog at rdcathletics. ca

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‘Next year’ is here! Cubs fans elated after series win C

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

HICAGO — Cubs fans woke up Thursday — if they slept at all the night before — to the realization that next year is finally here.

Hours after the Cubs won their first World Series in 108 years with a 8-7, 10-inning Game 7 victory in Cleveland, fans who swarmed the streets late Wednesday got another treat as they welcomed home a caravan of team buses at Wrigley Field. They erupted in cheers again when first baseman Anthony Rizzo held up the championship trophy.

The celebrating went on for hours and hours in the streets of Wrigleyville , in the shadows of statues of Cubs greats Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Ron Santo and legendary announcer Harry Caray — none of whom ever experienced even getting to the World Series in their long Hall-ofFame careers.

The long-awaited party didn’t come easy, of course: Fans of a certain age were certain the eighth inning home run that tied the game for the Indians was going to turn into another chapter in the Cubs’ long story of heartbreak, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory yet again. Instead, they found themselves singing the Steve Goodman’s Go Cubs Go long into the pre-dawn hours as “Fly the W” flags flapped across the city.

“When they tied it up it felt like it was over, they (the Cubs) had lost,” said Mike Dillon, a banking executive who drove to a tavern just outside Wrigley to be among other fans. “I couldn’t believe they won, and even going home I had to turn on the news channels to make sure it actually happened.”

Fans swarmed to the brick outer walls of Wrigley to write in chalk their names, their congratulations and the names of relatives who died without ever having seen the Cubs win it all.

“I get choked up just thinking about it,” said Lashawn Bennett, a 57-year-old resident of suburban South Holland who was diagnosed with throat cancer last year and was at Wrigley on Thursday morning. He borrowed a piece of chalk to write his name on the wall. “It’s just a piece of history I never thought I would actually realize.”

The championship ends the emptiness and bitterness of years past when the Cubs found spectacular and sometimes downright strange ways to add to the longest championship drought in North American professional sports and spur yet another round of “wait ’til next year” from its legions of fans.

Comedian and long-time Cubs fan Bob Newhart, who grew up in the Chicago area, celebrated by alluding to the curse allegedly placed on the team during the 1945 World Series

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Chicago Cubs fan Dan Wessel, 79, of Moline, Ill., gives a passing motorist the thumbs up Thursday morning, after they honked their horn in celebration of the Cubs winning the World Series. Wessel said he brought his homemade Cubs signs out to the corner of 16th Street and 31st Ave., in Moline, because he wanted to saviour the moment of the Cubs winning the world championship. “It’s a once in a lifetime thing,” said the die-hard Cubs fan. by the owner of the Billy Goat Tavern after he was told his pet goat wasn’t welcome at Wrigley.

“The billy goat is dead!! As I’ve said, from the beginning, I’m getting too old for this!” the 87-year-old actor tweeted .

Every Cubs fan knows those stories of defeat, starting with the 1969 team loaded with Hall of Famers that amassed a 9 1/2-game lead in mid-August before they started losing game after game in such numbers that the Miracle Mets not only caught them but ended up winning the National League East by eight games.

Then came 1984. After taking the first two games of the National League Championship Series against the Padres at Wrigley, the Cubs needed just one win in San Diego to advance to the World Series. They were swept in three games on the West Coast.

There were other playoff losses but none as painful as in 2003 when Steve Bartman deflected a ball that seemed destined for Moises Alou’s glove with the Cubs just five outs from reaching the World Series. Fans watched in horror as the Cubs fell apart, and few who left the park that night believed the team would win Game 7 the next night. They didn’t.

But that was all in the past as Cubs fans throughout Chicago and beyond celebrated a title 108 years in the making.

“People always said if the Cubs win the World Series it would be like

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Cubs fans said it was somehow fitting that Game 7 against the Indians included a blown 5-1 lead and extra innings.

“Never in my life have I ever felt every emotion possible, from joy to sadness, heartache,” said Robert Holt, a fan since he was a boy.

Mike Delmanowski, who flew to Chicago just to be close to Wrigley and surround himself with fellow Cubs fans, put it more succinctly.

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Indians can’t finish off amazing season with title

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CLEVELAND — When the epic, drama-drenched Game 7 was briefly delayed by rain, Indians players returned to their clubhouse, where chairs had been removed and plastic sheets hung in anticipation for a party waiting to pop since 1948.

Later, unopened bottles of Dom Perignon were wheeled out of a luxury suite. An ice sculpture of the World Series trophy was cloaked by a black cloth, soon to melt away.

It wasn’t meant to be.

An amazing, unforeseen season had a familiar ending.

Unable to stop Chicago’s curse-slaying run, the Indians, a team that perhaps embodied Cleveland’s blue-collar, get-off-the-mat ethos more than any other, finally succumbed in the 10th inning, losing 8-7 early Thursday before a downpour soaked thousands of Cubs fans who stood in the rain savoring the end of their 108-year championship wait.

Heartbreak still resides in Cleveland.

Only this time, the hurt isn’t as deep.

The Indians weren’t expected to be playing in October, never mind November, and they took some solace in pushing the Cubs to the limit.

“We shocked the world,” said shortstop Francisco Lindor, the 22-year-old who blossomed on baseball’s biggest stage. “No one had us here. Of course, we didn’t finish the way we wanted to finish. We were going to do whatever it took to win, grind at-bats, pitch after pitch, work hard. That’s our mojo.

We battled day in and day out.”

The Indians had hoped to duplicate what the Cavs, their neighbours on the other side of Gateway Plaza,

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Cleveland Indians’ Coco Crisp leaves the Progressive Field locker room after clearing out his locker, Thursday, in Cleveland.

The Indians lost Game 7 of baseball’s World Series 8-7 to the Chicago Cubs, Wednesday night. had done in June by winning a championship and ending the city’s 52-year title drought. They managed to sidestep adversity for months, but couldn’t overcome losing two starting pitchers and simply didn’t have enough to put away the Cubs and became the first team since the 1979 Baltimore Orioles to squander a 3-1 lead in the Series by

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losing Games 6 and 7 at home.

They went down — swinging.

“Nobody gave up,” said reliever Andrew Miller, who was virtually unhittable during the post-season before the Cubs figured him out in Game 7.

“It was fighting like hell. It was unfortunate that we didn’t quite get there.”

The fact that they got so close is worth a trophy presentation and parade.

The Indians were short-handed from almost the first day of spring training in Arizona.

All-Star left fielder Michael Brantley, their No. 3 hitter and probably the best all-around player on the roster, was unable to get fully healthy and played only 11 games. Without Brantley, manager Terry Francona had to be creative to find production and fortunately the Indians got huge contributions from sluggers Carlos Santana (34 homers) and Mike Napoli (101 RBIs).

Jose Ramirez played four positions, started in all nine spots in the batting order and didn’t miss a beat, batting .312 and was perhaps the team’s MVP. The Indians survived despite losing starting catcher Yan Gomes for long stretches — the club tried to trade for All-Star Jonathan Lucroy in July — and the outfield was an almost daily patchwork effort because of Brantley and two PED suspensions.

If all that wasn’t enough to stop them, the Indians closed out their division and beat Boston and Toronto

in the post-season despite not having injured starters Carlos Carrasco or Danny Salazar or losing starter Trevor Bauer after he sliced his pinkie playing with a drone — an odd accident that somehow seemed fitting for this resilient group.

The Indians were stitched together from the start.

Francona conjured magic from his bullpen as Miller, Bryan Shaw and closer Cody Allen combined to protect leads and stifle rallies all the way to the Series.

But in the end, the injuries caught them.

A handcuffed Francona was forced to ride ace Corey Kluber for three starts in nine days against the heavily favoured Cubs Josh Tomlin, who had dealt with his father’s illness during a dreary August, just didn’t have it in Game 6 and Miller, acquired from the New York Yankees in July for these kind of moments, didn’t have the usual bite on his nasty slider in a finale that rates with any Game 7 in history.

In the quiet of Cleveland’s clubhouse afterward, second baseman Jason Kipnis, a Chicago kid who has grown into Cleveland’s leader, put a season he’ll never forget in perspective. Kipnis was hurting, but knew he — and the Indians — will soon heal.

“We will be back,” he said. “We’re pretty confident in this group we got here. There are a lot of people who probably don’t even know who Carlos Carrasco is or Michael Brantley.

Those guys have huge roles for us.”

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IN SHORT Expansion talks between Rugby Canada and Pro Rugby North America collapse TORONTO — Talks to add Canadian teams to Pro Rugby North America have broken down.

The Pro Rugby league, founded by New York financier Doug Schoninger, debuted this year with teams in Denver, Ohio, Sacramento, San Diego and San Francisco. There had been expectations that Canada would soon join the league.

Rugby Canada CEO Allen Vansen said that while there was disagreement over a number of issues, an exclusivity clause that would have prevented Rugby Canada from sanctioning any other professional rugby organization was the primary stumbling block.

“Rugby Canada greatly appreciates the investment Mr. Schoninger and Pro Rugby are making in the development of professional Rugby in North America,” Vansen said in a statement.

“However, we cannot limit and restrict the opportunities that established international professional rugby would bring to Canada for the benefit of our players and the growth of the game.”

In a Facebook post, Schoninger said Rugby Canada had reversed an earlier “exclusive professional sanction,” suggesting an interest in partnering with Europe’s Guinness Pro 12 league was the reason.

Pro 12 currently includes teams in Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Italy.

“Pro12 does not have a legitimate business plan,” Schoninger said of potential North American expansion.

He said his plan called for two teams, one in Toronto one in Vancouver.

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Redblacks to rest 10 starters against Bombers TEAMS HAVE PLAYOFF SPOTS LOCKED UP

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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TTAWA — The Ottawa Redblacks would love nothing more than to close out the regular season with a victory, but not at the expense of playoff success.

As a result, Ottawa will have 10 new starters in its lineup on Friday night when the Redblacks host the Winnipeg Blue Bombers at TD Place, the regular-season finale for both teams.

After clinching first place in the East last weekend with a 23-10 victory over the Bombers (10-7-0) to earn a bye to the Eastern Final, the Redblacks (8-8-1) are taking advantage of a game that, by all accounts, is meaningless.

Following last week’s game Ottawa had 31 players in the training room and as such the Redblacks want to give its starters as much rest as possible before the Nov. 20 Eastern Final.

Should Ottawa lose it would mark the first time a team wins the East Division with a losing record.

“We just want to make sure we’re smart,” said Redblacks head coach Rick Campbell. “This is a big game for us, but the money is on Nov. 20. That’s the big game for us and we want to make sure we’re as healthy as possible for that game.”

While the rest will clearly be beneficial for a number of players, there’s a risk of building up rust when giving three weeks off to some including quarterbacks Henry Burris and Trev-

or Harris.

“We talked to them about it,” said Campbell.

“I had conversations with both those guys and we felt this was the right move for right now.”

With Burris and Harris on the sidelines Brock Jensen will get his first start in the CFL. Jensen was thrown into action earlier this season after Harris was injured July 22 against the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Jensen was 20-for29 for 271 yards and two touchdowns in a disappointing 30-29 loss.

“I’m ready, I’ve had a lot of reps behind the quarterbacks,” said the 26-year-old Jensen. “I feel very confident in what I’m doing and I’m very excited to play with the guys on Friday.”

A key addition to the lineup will be defensive tackle Cleyon Laing who the Redblacks officially signed Thursday morning.

Laing, an Edmonton native, spent most of the 2016 season with the NFL’s Miami Dolphins but was waived on Monday.

Prior to joining the Dolphins he played for the Toronto Argonauts where he posted eight sacks in 16 games with 40 tackles and two forced fumbles.

Laing had a number of teams interested, but felt Ottawa had plenty to offer.

“I’m Canadian, it’s a dream to win a Grey Cup,” said Laing. “To go to an organization like this with the players we have I just felt it was the path I needed to choose.”

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Buffalo Sabres’ Ryan O’Reilly and Minnesota Wild’s Eric Staal battle for position during the third period of an NHL hockey game. Life was a whole lot different when Staal last settled into a new hockey home more than 13 years ago.

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Staal settles into new hockey life following emotional exit from ’Canes

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ife was a whole lot different when Eric Staal last settled into a new hockey home more than 13 years

ago.

Back then Staal was a green 18-year-old from Thunder Bay, Ont., and the prized No. 1 overall pick and future of the Carolina Hurricanes.

Life was “hockey, hockey, hockey and not a lot else.”

These days it’s hockey, hockey, hockey and trips to the amusement park at the Mall of America with his family. Now 32 with a wife and three kids under 10, Staal is starting over with the Minnesota Wild, where he put down roots with a three-year contract worth US$10.5 million this summer.

Staal made his emotional exit from the Hurricanes in late February, dealt to the New York Rangers (where his brother Marc played) ahead of the trade deadline. It was a hard move for both team, and their long-time captain. The face of the franchise for more than a decade, Staal’s image was plastered all over the PNC Arena. His stall in the team’s dressing room remains empty to this day and the Hurricanes have yet to replace him as captain.

The move was painful for Staal, too. Not only was he leaving behind the only NHL home he’d ever known for a temporary gig with the Rangers, but he was separating from his family

for the first time.

“I was away for over a month without seeing them,” he said. “That’s a long time, especially for little ones.

They’re used to seeing you a lot more.

So that part was difficult. But once we got them to come and spend the rest of the season in New York with me it was great.”

The experience prepared Staal, a pending unrestricted free agent, and his family for what lay ahead in the future.

It made them realize that “we can make it work wherever as long as we’re together as a family”.

“But it didn’t make it any easier,” Staal said.

“It was still difficult, but it definitely made it doable for sure.”

Hockey has probably been the simplest part of his adjustment to Minnesota.

It’s life outside the rink that’s required more fine-tuning.

It’s getting his sons, Parker and Levi, settled into new schools and minor hockey teams. It’s getting to know a whole new set of teammates, coaches, trainers, management and surroundings in Minnesota, almost 2,000 kilometres northwest of Raleigh.

Two of his former Rangers teammates, Derek Stepan and Ryan McDonagh, have helped. Both Minnesota natives and summer residents, the pair and their wives have been a useful resource for Staal and his wife Tanya in getting accustomed to their new home.

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Marner scores twice in Leafs’ win

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Maple Leafs 2 Sabres 1 UFFALO, N.Y. — Mitchell Marner was the latest rookie to lead the Toronto Maple Leafs to victory.

Marner scored both goals in a 2-1 defeat of the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday night. It was the Maple Leafs’ first road win of the season.

“He made the right plays at the right time,” said Maple Leafs goaltender Frederick Andersen, who made 42 saves. “It was cool to see him bury a couple there. Some big goals on the road here.”

The 19-year-old Marner scored for the first time since Oct. 15 and had his first two-goal game.

“He was playing great and focused on doing everything right,” Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock said. “And then when he scored, then he probably wanted to score a little bit and focused on scoring and didn’t score.

Focus on doing things right, and everything works out for itself.”

Marner is fourth among NHL rookies in scoring with three goals and five assists in 11 games. His 20-year-old teammate, William Nylander, leads all rookies with four goals and seven assists.

Auston Matthews, the 19-year-old centre Toronto selected with the No. 1 pick in last June’s draft, is second with six goals and four assists.

Matthews had four shots on goal and didn’t record a point for the fifth straight game.

Andersen followed up a 44-save performance in Toronto’s 3-2 overtime victory over Edmonton on Thursday with another big game and improved to 5-0 against Buffalo.

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Calgary Flames goalie Chad Johnson (31) stops a shot from San Jose Sharks centre Joe Pavelski (8) during the first period of an NHL hockey game Thursday, in San Jose, Calif.

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Ovechkin scores twice, including OT winner as Caps beat Jets

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Caps 4 Jets 3 (OT) ASHINGTON — Even after Alex Ovechkin bailed the Washington Capitals out of trouble to win their fourth game in a row, all he wanted to talk about was how it almost slipped away.

The Capitals blew a three-goal lead in the third period Thursday night before beating the Winnipeg Jets 4-3 in overtime. Ovechkin had two goals, including the game-winner, and assisted on Nicklas Backstrom’s first of the season, but the blown lead was the biggest takeaway for a team that should again be a Stanley Cup contender.

“We just can’t stop playing,” said Ovechkin, tied for second in the NHL with six goals. “I think we stopped playing. We (were) too casual, and it almost cost us the game.”

Goals by Backstrom, Ovechkin and T.J. Oshie, and an 18-5 second-period shot advantage had Washington on cruise control.

Braden Holtby made 11 of his 24 saves in the first period, and his opportunistic teammates took advantage of turnovers in front and rebounds allowed by Winnipeg starter Michael Hutchinson, who made 28 stops.

Then the third period began. Holtby misjudged a poke-check attempt that allowed Tobias Enstrom to score short-handed into an empty net, and defensive miscues led to goals by

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Adam Lowry and Marko Dano.

Washington blew a 2-0 third-period lead at Winnipeg on Tuesday but won in regulation when Jay Beagle scored in the final minute. Ovechkin’s power-play goal 3:21 into overtime Thursday allowed the Capitals to be satisfied with another victory, but the lapse before that kept them from being too happy about it.

“I thought they were actually outworking us there in the third period,” Backstrom said. “A little sloppy from our side, but at the same time we’re really lucky we got away with two points there.”

The Jets overcame a three-goal deficit in the third period to force overtime for the third time in 11 games this season.

It’s a major improvement for a young team that struggled in those situations last year.

“We haven’t quit once this year,” captain Blake Wheeler said. “Everyone had a hand in that in the third period. You can be proud of doing those things.”

Coach Paul Maurice was displeased with the too many men on the ice penalty called against his team in overtime, which led to Ovechkin’s goal.

“I can’t blame the referees on it because the linesman called it, which was important that he involved himself in the game at that point,” Maurice said.

“I don’t think it was too many men on the ice. I don’t even think it was that close.”

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sons with Anaheim.

“He’s been amazing for us,” Marner said. “He’s been our best player on the ice every night and he’s been giving us a chance to win. When you have a goaltender like this, you have confidence up front to do things.”

The Maple Leafs improved to 1-3-3 on the road. They also ended an eightgame winless streak in Buffalo.

Marcus Foligno scored for the Sabres and Robin Lehner made 27 saves. Buffalo had a four-game winning streak snapped.

The Sabres’ 42 shots on goal were a season-high.

“We’re shooting a lot, creating a lot of chances, but we’ve got to score more than one,” forward Tyler Ennis said.

Marner opened the scoring 4:08 into the first period. Tyler Bozak carried the puck from behind the net and fed Marner for the tip-in from the right slot.

Marner netted his second goal 1:50 into the second period when he stripped Foligno in front of the net and flicked a wrist shot around Lehner’s left skate.

Foligno atoned for the turnover four minutes later, scoring his second goal of the season on a backhand from the left edge of the crease.

Andersen had 15 saves in each of the first two periods. He slid across the crease to kick away a point-blank shot from Zemgus Girgensons and stopped Girgensons again on a rebound late in the first period. Midway through the second, Andersen dived in front of the net and reached across his body to make a glove save on a slap shot by Foligno.

“He was definitely the reason they came out of here with two points,” Foligno said.

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High-flying Falcons steamroll Buccaneers

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Falcons 43 Buccaneers 28 TAMPA, Fla. — Matt Ryan threw for 344 yards and four touchdowns, helping the Atlanta Falcons tighten their grip on first place in the NFC South with a 43-28 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Thursday night.

Julio Jones had eight receptions for 111 yards and a TD as the Falcons (6-3) avenged a season-opening loss to the Bucs (3-5). Tampa Bay has dropped two straight on the heels of a three-game winning streak that got them back to .500.

Jones, who’s closing in on another 1,000-yard receiving season with 970 through nine games, caught a threeyard scoring pass in the third quarter,

when Ryan led TD drives of 86 and 82 yards to break it open.

Levine Toilolo, Patrick DiMarco and Austin Hooper also caught TD pass from Ryan, who leads the NFL with 2,980 yards and 23 touchdowns vs. four interceptions.

Jameis Winston threw for 261 yards and three touchdowns for Tampa Bay, including scoring passes of three and 24 yards to Evans, who had 11 receptions.

Both of Tampa Bay’s young stars finished the game on the sideline, with Evans being evaluated for a possible concussion and Winston limping off after being shaken up when he was tackled trying to score on a two-point conversion play with just under seven minutes remaining.

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Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones slips a tackle by Tampa Bay Buccaneers outside linebacker Daryl Smith during the third quarter of an NFL football game Thursday, in Tampa, Fla. Winston was tackled around the ankle by Atlanta’s Brooks Reed and also hit by cornerback Jalen Collins.

Mike Glennon finished up for the

Bucs, taking his first regular season snaps since 2014. He threw a late TD pass to Cameron Brate to cut into a 23-point deficit.

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Senators 1 Canucks 0 TTAWA — Mike Condon made 27 saves in his Ottawa debut as the Senators blanked the Vancouver Canucks 1-0 on Thursday.

Mike Hoffman scored the lone goal for the Senators (7-3-0).

Jacob Markstrom made 23 saves for the Canucks (4-6-1), who have now lost seven straight (0-6-1) and have been shut out in four of their past five games.

Ottawa made the most of an Erik Gudbranson giveaway at the 14-minute mark of the second period as Markstrom tried to play the loose puck, but instead left a wide-open cage for Hoffman to score the game’s only goal.

Condon, who was acquired from Pittsburgh for a 2017 fifth-round pick, arrived in Ottawa Wednesday after a long day of travel from Los Angeles. He was on the ice for Thursday’s morning skate and given the start.

Coincidentally, Condon made his first NHL start last year in Ottawa, Oct. 11, as a member of the Montreal Canadiens and posted a 3-1 victory.

The 26-year-old could also get the nod in goal Saturday against Buffalo

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as Craig Anderson has taken an indefinite leave to be with his wife, Nicholle, who was diagnosed with cancer.

Andrew Hammond remains sidelined with a groin injury and is expected to miss at least another week.

Despite having played just one period of hockey this season, Condon looked solid by making a number of key saves throughout the game to impress the 13,260 on hand at Canadian Tire Centre.

Condon made a number of stops in the third to keep the Canucks off the board, including two on Jannik Hansen and Sven Baertschi.

The Senators relied on Condon early in the second as well as Vancouver dictated much of the play. Ottawa had just one shot on goal through the first ten minutes of the period.

A penalty-filled first period made it difficult for either team to get anything going. This was the final meeting between the two teams this season.

Notes: RW Mark Stone missed the game due to a neck injury, while D Chris Wideman was a late scratch due to an upper-body injury. LW Max McCormick and Fredrik Claesson were recalled from Binghamton and were in the lineup. Vancouver RW Jack Skille and D Alex Biega were healthy scratches.

LOCAL SPORTS Today Sunday ● College basketball: RDC vs. Olds, women 6 p.m., men to follow, RDC. ● CHL: Chinook League, Lacombe at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Spokane. ● Junior B hockey: Heritage League, Mountainview at Three Hills, 8 p.m.

Saturday ● Football: Central Alberta High School Football League City Division final, 2:30 p.m., Lacombe. Rural Division final, Sylvan Lake, 2 p.m. ● College basketball: RDC vs. St. Mary’s University, women 6 p.m., men to follow, RDC. ● College men’s hockey: RDC Kings vs. Portage, 7 p.m., Penhold. ● AJHL: Olds Grizzlys vs.

Okotoks Oilers, 7 p.m., Olds. ● AFHL: Midget elite, Red Deer Sutter Fund vs. Lethbridge, 7:45 p.m., Kin City. ● Junior B hockey: Heritage League, Three Hills at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Collicutt.

● AMBHL: Major bantam, Red Deer Rebels vs. Calgary Royals, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● CHL: Chinook League, Fort Saskatchewan at Innisfail, 2:45 p.m. ● Junior B hockey: Heritage League, Stettler at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m. ● AMHL: Midget AAA, Red Deer Chiefs vs. Rocky Mountain Raiders, 5 p.m., Kinex. ● AFHL: Midget AAA, Red Deer Sutter Fund vs.

Rocky Mountain Raiders, 5 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

Monday ● Basketball: Red Deer Women’s League, Storm vs.

Big Ballers, 7:15 p.m., Shooting Stars & Age Gap vs. Average Joe’s, 8:30 p.m., LTCHS Gym 11; Hoosier Daddy vs.

Funk, 7:15 p.m., Spartans vs, Dynamo, 8:30 p.m., CACHS; Triple Threat vs. Quarter-Pro, 7:15 p.m., Rampage vs. Pink Panthers, 8:30 p.m.; LTCHS North; Xpress vs.

Raptors, 7:15 p.m., LTCHS South.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Cleveland 5 0 1.000 — Atlanta 3 1 .750 1 1/2 Charlotte 3 1 .750 1 1/2 Toronto 3 1 .750 1 1/2 Chicago 3 1 .750 1 1/2 Boston 3 2 .600 2 Detroit 3 2 .600 2 Milwaukee 3 2 .600 2 Miami 2 2 .500 2 1/2 Brooklyn 2 3 .400 3 Orlando 2 3 .400 3 Indiana 2 3 .400 3 New York 1 3 .250 3 1/2 Washington 0 3 .000 4 Philadelphia 0 4 .000 4 1/2 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 4 0 1.000 — San Antonio 4 1 .800 1/2 L.A. Clippers 3 1 .750 1 Golden State 3 1 .750 1 Houston 3 2 .600 1 1/2 Memphis 3 2 .600 1 1/2 Utah 3 2 .600 1 1/2 Denver 2 2 .500 2 L.A. Lakers 2 3 .400 2 1/2 Portland 2 3 .400 2 1/2 Sacramento 2 4 .333 3 Minnesota 1 3 .250 3 Phoenix 1 4 .200 3 1/2 Dallas 0 4 .000 4 New Orleans 0 5 .000 4 1/2 Wednesday’s Games Charlotte 109, Philadelphia 93 Toronto 113, Washington 103 Brooklyn 109, Detroit 101

Houston 118, New York 99 L.A. Lakers 123, Atlanta 116 Boston 107, Chicago 100 Memphis 89, New Orleans 83, OT Utah 97, Dallas 81 Phoenix 118, Portland 115, OT Oklahoma City 85, L.A. Clippers 83 Thursday’s Games Orlando 102, Sacramento 94 Cleveland 128, Boston 122 Denver 102, Minnesota 99 Milwaukee 125, Indiana 107 Oklahoma City at Golden State, late Today’s Games Atlanta at Washington, 5 p.m.

Charlotte at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Miami at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Memphis, 6 p.m.

New York at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Portland at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Utah, 7 p.m.

Golden State at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 4 p.m.

Chicago at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Cleveland at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Denver at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Washington at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Houston at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Utah at New York, 10 a.m.

Portland at Memphis, 1:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Toronto, 4 p.m.

Milwaukee at Dallas, 5 p.m.

Denver at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m.

IN SHORT timetable for Anderson’s Goaltender Anderson no return.

Anderson took a leave of takes personal leave absence last week, returning on Sunday to make 37 saves to be with wife in an emotional 2-0 shutout Ottawa Senators goaltender Craig Anderson has left the team to be with his wife Nicholle, who was recently diagnosed with cancer.

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win over the Edmonton Oilers. Goaltender Mike Condon, recently acquired from Pittsburgh, was scheduled to make his first start of the season when the Senators hosted Vancouver on Thursday.

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HOCKEY WHL Eastern Conference East Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pts Regina 14 11 0 3 0 78 41 25 Moose Jaw 15 10 3 2 0 54 48 22 Swift Current 17 9 5 2 1 59 55 21 Brandon 15 6 6 3 0 52 51 15 Saskatoon 16 7 8 1 0 36 51 15 Prince Albert 16 4 11 1 0 35 52 9 Central Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pts Medicine Hat 16 11 4 1 0 77 51 23 Red Deer 17 8 7 1 1 54 62 18 Lethbridge 16 7 7 1 1 51 62 16 Edmonton 15 5 8 2 0 38 57 12 Calgary 11 5 5 1 0 26 35 11 Kootenay 16 3 9 3 1 41 68 10 Western Conference U.S. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pts Everett 16 12 2 2 0 53 32 26 Tri-City 16 9 6 1 0 58 59 19 Portland 16 8 8 0 0 62 56 16 Spokane 15 6 6 2 1 43 53 15 Seattle 13 6 6 0 1 34 43 13 B.C. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pts Prince George 18 13 3 2 0 64 48 28 Victoria 18 9 7 2 0 62 52 20 Kamloops 18 9 8 1 0 59 43 19 Kelowna 17 9 8 0 0 47 56 18 Vancouver 17 7 10 0 0 47 55 14 Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.

Tuesday’s Games Moose Jaw 3 Prince Albert 1 Seattle 4 Saskatoon 3 Victoria 6 Red Deer 4 Kamloops 5 Kelowna 1 Wednesday’s Games Moose Jaw 3 Brandon 2 (OT) Regina 10 Kootenay 2 Seattle 5 Prince Albert 2 Edmonton 5 Swift Current 4 (OT) Medicine Hat 6 Prince George 4 Lethbridge 2 Kamloops 1 (OT) Everett 4 Red Deer 1 Today’s Games Seattle at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Calgary at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Regina, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Lethbridge at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Red Deer at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Kelowna at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Edmonton at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Seattle at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Lethbridge at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Tri-City at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Tri-City at Portland, 9 p.m.

WHL Scoring Leaders G A 5 22 12 13 10 13 7 16 11 11 5 17 12 8 11 9 10 10 10 10 7 13 4 16 4 16 9 10 7 12 7 12 7 12 6 13 5 14 12 6 8 10 7 11 6 12 4 14 12 5 9 8 8 9 8 9 7 10 6 11 6 11 2 15 9 7 9 7 8 8 7 9 6 10 6 10 4 12 4 12 2 14

Mason Shaw, MH Sam Steel, Reg Kailer Yamamoto, SPO Cody Glass, Por Nikita Popugaev, MJ Chad Butcher, MH Tyler Steenbergen, SC Jayden Halbgewachs, MJ Skyler McKenzie , Por Tyler Soy, Vic Brad Morrison, PG Brayden Burke, Let Aleksi Heponiemi, SC Michael Spacek, RD Josh Mahura, RD Ryley Lindgren, Let Collin Shirley, Kam Patrick Bajkov, EVT Dawson Leedahl, Reg Michael Rasmussen, TC Jack Walker, Vic John Dahlstrom, MH Morgan Geekie, TC Artyom Minulin, SC Zak Zborosky, KTN Filip Ahl, Reg Jake Leschyshyn, Reg Dante Hannoun, Vic Simon Stransky, Pa Matt Bradley, MH Jared Bethune, PG Chase Harrison, Reg Tanner Kaspick, BDN Matthew Phillips, Vic Ty Lewis, BDN Nick Chyzowski, Kam Dominic Zwerger, EVT Kole Lind, Kel Parker Wotherspoon, TC Ryan Hughes, Por Steven Owre, MH

Pts 27 25 23 23 22 22 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 19 19 19 19 19 19 18 18 18 18 18 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16

Canadian Hockey League 2016-17 Top Ten Poll The Canadian Hockey League’s weekly top 10 poll for the 2016-17 season (last week’s rankings in parentheses records as of Tuesday): 1. (2) Regina Pats (WHL, 10-0-3-0) 2. (1) Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL, 12-2-0-0) 3. (4) Prince George Cougars (WHL, 13-2-2-0) 4. (3) Rouyn-Noranda Huskies (QMJHL, 12-2-0-0) 5. (5) Erie Otters (OHL, 11-3-1-0) 6. (6) Everett Silvertips (WHL, 11-2-2-0) 7. (NR) Kitchener Rangers (OHL, 10-3-0-1) 8. (7) London Knights (OHL, 8-2-2-1) 7 6 9. (NR) Blainville-Boisbriand Armada (QMJHL, 11-4-0-1) 10. (10) Windsor Spitfires (OHL, 10-4-0-0) Honourable Mentions — (8) Saint John Sea Dogs (QMJHL, 11-5-1-0) Moose Jaw Warriors (WHL, 9-32-0) Medicine Hat Tigers (WHL, 10-4-1-0).

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 10 9 0 1 19 34 14 Ottawa 10 7 3 0 14 28 26 Detroit 11 6 4 1 13 31 28 Tampa Bay 11 6 4 1 13 36 34 Boston 10 6 4 0 12 24 27 Florida 11 5 5 1 11 30 28 Toronto 11 4 4 3 11 31 38 Buffalo 10 4 4 2 10 23 24 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA N.Y. Rangers 11 8 3 0 16 45 25 Washington 10 7 2 1 15 29 22 Pittsburgh 10 7 2 1 15 30 28 Philadelphia 12 6 5 1 13 43 43 New Jersey 9 4 2 3 11 21 20 Columbus 8 4 3 1 9 21 19 N.Y. Islanders 11 4 6 1 9 30 34 Carolina 9 2 4 3 7 25 32 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 11 7 3 1 15 40 28 Minnesota 10 6 3 1 13 33 21 St. Louis 11 5 4 2 12 24 32 Dallas 10 4 4 2 10 26 31 Winnipeg 11 4 6 1 9 27 33 Colorado 9 4 5 0 8 20 28 Nashville 9 3 5 1 7 24 29 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Edmonton 11 7 3 1 15 34 27 San Jose 10 6 4 0 12 25 24 Anaheim 11 4 5 2 10 26 28 Vancouver 11 4 6 1 9 17 28 Calgary 11 4 6 1 9 32 40 Los Angeles 10 4 6 0 8 20 30 Arizona 9 3 6 0 6 27 35 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday’s Games Montreal 3, Vancouver 0 Philadelphia 4, Detroit 3, OT Pittsburgh 5, Anaheim 1 Thursday’s Games Washington 4, Winnipeg 3, OT Philadelphia 3, N.Y. Islanders 2, SO N.Y. Rangers 5, Edmonton 3 Toronto 2, Buffalo 1 Florida 4, New Jersey 3, OT Boston 4, Tampa Bay 3, SO Ottawa 1, Vancouver 0 Chicago 4, Colorado 0 Dallas 6, St. Louis 2 Nashville at Arizona, late Calgary at San Jose, late Pittsburgh at Los Angeles, late Today’s Games Montreal at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Arizona at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Minnesota at Colorado, 1 p.m.

Philadelphia at Montreal, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Boston, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Edmonton at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Florida at Washington, 5 p.m.

Columbus at St. Louis, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

Pittsburgh at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Edmonton at Detroit, 3 p.m.

Colorado at St. Louis, 3 p.m.

New Jersey at Carolina, 4 p.m.

Winnipeg at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

Dallas at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Calgary at Anaheim, 7:30 p.m.

THURSDAY’D SUMMARIES NY Rangers 5, Edmonton 3 First Period 1. Edmonton, Nugent-Hopkins 1 (McDavid, Eberle) 6:36 (pp).

2. NY Rangers, Hayes 4 (Grabner, Skjei) 8:34.

Penalties — Larsson Edm (high-sticking) :39 Fast NYR (double high-sticking) 4:01 Holden NYR (delay of game) 19:48.

Second Period 3. Edmonton, Maroon 3 (Puljujarvi) 10:28.

4. NY Rangers, Grabner 6 (Miller, Hayes) 15:46.

Penalties — Draisaitl Edm (hooking) 1:47.

Third Period 5. Edmonton, Larsson 1 (Sekera, Letestu) 8:49.

6. NY Rangers, Fast 1 (Pirri, Skjei) 9:31.

7. NY Rangers, Nash 6 (Holden, Stepan) 18:39.

8. NY Rangers, Miller 4 (Holden, Hayes) 18:56 (en).

Penalties — Hayes NYR (hooking) 6:46 Pitlick Edm (interference) 12:21.

Shots on goal by Edmonton 10 9 5 — 24 New York 10 11 10 — 31 Goal — Edmonton: Talbot (L, 7-3-1). NY Rangers: Lundqvist (W, 6-3-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Edmonton: 1-4 NY Rangers: 0-3.

Referees — Steve Kozari, Garrett Rank. Linesmen — Brian Murphy, Jonny Murray.

Washington 4, Winnipeg 3 (OT) First Period 1. Washington, Backstrom 1 (Ovechkin, Williams) 14:38.

Penalties — Connolly Wash (tripping) 8:04.

Second Period 2. Washington, Oshie 4 (Burakovsky) 1:48.

3. Washington, Ovechkin 5 (Carlson, Backstrom) 10:04.

Penalties — Dano Wpg (high-sticking) 2:45 Ehlers Wpg (hooking) 12:10.

Third Period 4. Winnipeg, Enstrom 1 (unassisted) 2:11.

5. Winnipeg, Lowry 2 (Byfuglien) 5:23.

6. Winnipeg, Dano 1 (Copp, Tanev) 11:11.

Penalties — Ehlers Wpg (hooking) 1:25 Kuznetsov Wash (holding) 8:23 Orpik Wash (tripping) 9:34 Scheifele Wpg (embellishment) 9:34 Byfuglien Wpg (slashing) 11:31.

Overtime 7. Washington, Ovechkin 6 (Carlson, Backstrom) 3:21 (pp).

Penalties — Winnipeg bench (too many men, served

by Connor) 2:21.

Shots on goal by Winnipeg 11 5 11 0 — 27 Washington 4 18 7 3 — 32 Goal — Winnipeg: Hutchinson (L, 2-3-1). Washington: Holtby (W, 5-2-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Winnipeg: 0-2 Washington: 1-5.

Referees — Justin StPierre, Wes McCauley. Linesmen — Matt MacPherson, Greg Devorski.

Toronto 2, Buffalo 1 First Period 1. Toronto, Marner 2 (Bozak, van Riemsdyk) 4:08.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 2. Toronto, Marner 3 (unassisted) 1:50.

3. Buffalo, Foligno 2 (Larsson, Reinhart) 5:58.

Penalties — Carrick Tor (interference) 11:39 Soshnikov Tor (interference) 14:55.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Toronto 7 15 7 — 29 Buffalo 15 16 12 — 43 Goal — Toronto: Andersen (W, 4-2-3). Buffalo: Lehner (L, 3-3-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Toronto: 0-0 Buffalo: 0-2.

Referees — Kevin Pollock, Frederick L’Ecuyer. Linesmen — Devin Berg, Scott Cherrey.

Ottawa 1, Vancouver 0 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Dorsett Vcr, Borowiecki Ott (fighting) 5:32 Horvat Vcr (hooking) 6:28 Tryamkin Vcr, Smith Ott (fighting) 11:00 Tryamkin Vcr (kneeing) 11:00 Smith Ott (roughing) 11:00 Horvat Vcr, Karlsson Ott (roughing) 19:54.

Second Period 1. Ottawa, Hoffman 2 (unassisted) 14:42.

Penalties — Pyatt Ott (hooking) 2:34 Neil Ott (interference) 9:29 Dorsett Vcr (hooking) 19:11 Dorsett Vcr (unsportsmanlike conduct) 19:11.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Ryan Ott (tripping) :22.

Shots on goal by Vancouver 6 9 12 — 27 Ottawa 9 8 7 — 24 Goal — Vancouver: Markstrom (L, 3-2-1). Ottawa: Condon (W, 1-0-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Vancouver: 0-2 Ottawa: 0-4.

Referees — Dean Morton, Dave Lewis. Linesmen — Brandon Gawryletz, Mark Shewchyk.

Florida 4, New Jersey 3 (OT) First Period 1. Florida, Ekblad 2 (Yandle, Marchessault) 12:58 (pp).

Penalties — Reimer Fla (high-sticking) 3:06 Palmieri NJ (roughing) 11:37 Lovejoy NJ (tripping) 16:22 Yandle Fla (embellishment) 16:22 Ekblad Fla (holding) 18:54.

Second Period 2. Florida, Malgin 2 (Demers, Sceviour) 6:44 (pp).

3. New Jersey, Zajac 4 (Palmieri, Severson) 18:04 (pp).

Penalties — Zacha NJ (high-sticking) 5:05 Henrique NJ (roughing) 8:18 McKegg Fla (tripping) 16:44.

Third Period 4. Florida, Trocheck 5 (Jagr, Pysyk) 4:29.

5. New Jersey, Parenteau 4 (Moore, Lappin) 4:49.

6. New Jersey, Zacha 1 (Bennett, Severson) 16:05.

Penalties — Petrovic Fla (delay of game) 10:10.

Overtime 7. Florida, Trocheck 6 (Smith) 4:16.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by New Jersey 8 15 10 1 — 34 Florida 6 8 14 3 — 31 Goal — New Jersey: Schneider (L, 4-2-2). Florida: Reimer (W, 2-1-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — New Jersey: 1-5 Florida: 2-3.

Referees — Brad Watson, Graham Skilliter. Linesmen — Derek Amell, Shandor Alphonso.

Boston 4, Tampa Bay 3 (SO) First Period 1. Boston, Carlo 2 (Bergeron) 4:01.

2. Boston, Spooner 2 (Krug, Krejci) 10:47 (pp).

3. Tampa Bay, Hedman 2 (Kucherov, Filppula) 15:09 (pp).

Penalties — Brown TB (double high-sticking) 7:17 McQuaid Bos (high-sticking) 14:07.

Second Period 4. Boston, Pastrnak 6 (Bergeron, Marchand) 4:38.

5. Tampa Bay, Johnson 3 (Stralman, Stamkos) 8:30 (pp).

Penalties — Moore Bos (holding) 6:32 Killorn TB (slashing) 12:55 Acciari Bos (tripping) 15:52.

Third Period 6. Tampa Bay, Johnson 4 (Coburn, Koekkoek) 10:04.

Penalties — None.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — Krejci Bos (hooking) :28 Palat TB (holding) 4:21.

Shootout — Boston wins 2-1 Boston: Spooner miss, Marchand miss, Pastrnak miss, Nash goal, Bergeron miss, Krejci miss, Krug miss, Moore miss, Czarnik miss, Hayes goal.

Tampa Bay: Filppula miss, Kucherov miss, Stamkos miss, Point goal, Palat miss, Johnson miss, Killorn miss, Callahan miss, Stralman miss, Namestnikov miss.

Shots on goal by Boston 13 9 6 3 — 31 Tampa Bay 11 9 8 2 — 30 Goal — Boston: Rask (W, 6-0-0). Tampa Bay: Vasilevskiy (SOL, 2-1-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Boston: 1-4 Tampa Bay: 2-4.

Referees — Jake Brenk, Dan O’Halloran. Linesmen — Scott Driscoll, Brad Kovachik.

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FOOTBALL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL Tier I (Pop 1250 and over) 1. (1) Bev Facey (Sher Park), (10-0) 2. (2) Henry Wise Wood, Calgary (6-1) 3. (3) St. Francis, Calgary (6-1) 4. (4) Harry Ainlay, Edm (8-1) 5. (5) LCI, Lethbridge (6-2) 6. (6) Centennial, Calgary (6-1) 7. (7) Notre Dame, Calgary (4-2) 8. (9) Notre Dame, Red Deer (7-1) 9. (8) Spruce Grove (5-2-1) 10. (10) Raymond (4-3) Tier II (750-1,249) 1. (1) St. Joseph’s, Gr Prairie (9-1) 2. (2) Foothills, Okotoks (6-2) 3. (3) Hunting Hills, Red Deer (7-2) 4. (4) Medicine Hat (8-1) 6. (6) Austin O’Brien, Edm (4-4-1) 5. (5) Springbank (5-2) 7. (NR) Robert Thirsk, Calgary (3-4) 8. (8) Catholic Central, Leth (6-3) 9. (9) Lloydminster (6-3) 10. (NR) Paul Kane, St. Albert (1-6-1) Tier III (450-749) 1. (1) Cochrane (7-0) 2. (2) Holy Rosary, Lloydminster (9-0) 3. (3) Sylvan Lake (7-0-1) 4. (4) Cardston (5-3) 5. (5) Strathmore (5-3) 6. (6) Peace Wapiti, Grande Prairie (5-4) 7. (7) St. Albert (4-5) 8. (8) Bonnyville (6-2) 9. (10) Brooks (4-5) 10. (NR) Rundle College, Cal (2-6-1) Tier IV (449 and less) 1. (1) W.R. Myers, Taber (7-0) 2. (2) Sexsmith (8-1) 3. (3) Ardrossan (5-1-1) 4. (4) Stettler (4-2) 5. (5) Willow Creek, Claresholm (5-3) 6. (6) Bow Valley, Cochrane (6-2) 7. (7) Valleyview (6-3) 8. (8) St. Paul (4-3) 9. (9) Canmore (5-2) 10. (10) Cold Lake (6-3) Six-Man 1. (1) St. Joseph’s, Brooks (7-0) 2. (2) Buck Mountain, Buck Lake (7-0) 3. (3) Millwoods Christian, Edm (6-1) 4. (4) Rimbey (6-1) 6. (6) Holy Redeemer, Edson (5-2) 7. (7) Breton (5-2) 5. (5) JC Charyk, Hanna (5-2) 8. (8) Sedgewick (5-2) 9. (9) Redwater (3-4) 10. (NR) Caroline (4-3)

y-Ottawa

GP 17

CFL East Division W L T PF PA 8 8 1 466 465

x-Hamilton Montreal Toronto

17 17 17

7 10 0 482 470 14 6 11 0 351 390 12 5 12 0 366 527 10 West Division GP W L T PF PA Pt y-Calgary 18 15 2 1 586 369 31 x-B.C. 17 11 6 0 504 436 22 x-Winnipeg 17 10 7 0 464 434 20 x-Edmonton 17 9 8 0 508 479 18 Saskatchewan 17 5 12 0 332 489 10 x — clinched playoff berth y — clinched division.

WEEK 19 Bye: Toronto Sunday’s Games Montreal 17 Calgary 8 Saturday’s Games Ottawa 23 Winnipeg 10 B.C. 24 Saskatchewan 6 Friday’s Games Edmonton 29 Hamilton 26 WEEK 20 Bye: Calgary Friday’s Games Winnipeg at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Montreal at Hamilton, 11 a.m.

Toronto at Edmonton, 2 p.m.

Saskatchewan at B.C., 5 p.m.

End of Regular Season NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 7 1 0 .875 217 Buffalo 4 4 0 .500 212 Miami 3 4 0 .429 146 N.Y. Jets 3 5 0 .375 150 South W L T Pct PF Houston 5 3 0 .625 137 Tennessee 4 4 0 .500 182 Indianapolis 3 5 0 .375 208 Jacksonville 2 5 0 .286 139 North W L T Pct PF Pittsburgh 4 3 0 .571 170 Cincinnati 3 4 1 .438 167 Baltimore 3 4 0 .429 133 Cleveland 0 8 0 .000 158 West W L T Pct PF Denver 6 2 0 .750 194 Oakland 6 2 0 .750 215 Kansas City 5 2 0 .714 166 San Diego 3 5 0 .375 225 Pt 17

PA 132 172 159 208 PA 167 183 230 196 PA 150 189 139 238 PA 136 203 137 212

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East

TRANSACTIONS Dallas N.Y. Giants Philadelphia Washington

W 6 4 4 4

L 1 3 3 3

Atlanta New Orleans Tampa Bay Carolina

W 6 3 3 2

L 3 4 5 5

Minnesota Green Bay Detroit Chicago

W 5 4 4 2

L 2 3 4 6

Seattle Arizona Los Angeles San Francisco

W 4 3 3 1

L 2 4 4 6

T Pct 0 .857 0 .571 0 .571 1 .563 South T Pct 0 .667 0 .429 0 .375 0 .286 North T Pct 0 .714 0 .571 0 .500 0 .250 West T Pct 1 .643 1 .438 0 .429 0 .143

PF 188 133 179 186

PA 130 141 117 189

PF 305 201 180 191

PA 259 215 232 196

PF 139 172 183 131

PA 104 156 190 179

PF 131 179 120 144

PA 109 140 154 219

Thursday’s Games Atlanta 43, Tampa Bay 28 Sunday’s Games Dallas at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at Miami, 11 a.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Kansas City, 11 a.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

New Orleans at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

Carolina at Los Angeles, 2:05 p.m.

Tennessee at San Diego, 2:25 p.m.

Indianapolis at Green Bay, 2:25 p.m.

Denver at Oakland, 6:30 p.m.

Open: Washington, Arizona, Chicago, New England, Houston, Cincinnati Monday’s Games Buffalo at Seattle, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 10 Cleveland at Baltimore, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 13 Atlanta at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Denver at New Orleans, 11 a.m.

Houston at Jacksonville, 11 a.m.

Los Angeles at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m.

Kansas City at Carolina, 11 a.m.

Chicago at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

Minnesota at Washington, 11 a.m.

Green Bay at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Miami at San Diego, 2:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Arizona, 2:25 p.m.

Dallas at Pittsburgh, 2:25 p.m.

Seattle at New England, 8:30 p.m.

Open: Detroit, Buffalo, Indianapolis, Oakland Monday, Nov. 14 Cincinnati at N.Y. Giants, 6:30 p.m.

SOCCER MLS PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND (single-game eliminations) Thursday’s results Montreal 4 D.C. 2 Seattle 1 Kansas City 0 Wednesday’s results Toronto 3 Philadelphia 1 Los Angeles 3 Salt Lake 1 SECOND ROUND Conference Semifinals (two-leg, total goals series) EASTERN CONFERENCE New York (1) vs. Montreal (5) (Montreal leads 1-0) First Leg Sunday’s result Montreal 1 New York 0 Second Leg Sunday, Nov. 6 Montreal at New York, 2 p.m.

New York City (2) vs. Toronto (3) (Toronto leads 2-0)

First Leg Sunday’s result Toronto 2 New York City 0 Second Leg Sunday, Nov. 6 Toronto at New York City, 4:30 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Dallas (1) vs. Seattle (4) (Seattle leads 3-0) First Leg Sunday’s result Seattle 3 Dallas 0 Second Leg Sunday, Nov. 6 Seattle at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Colorado (2) vs. Los Angeles (3) (Los Angeles leads 1-0) First Leg Sunday’s result Los Angeles 1 Colorado 0 Second Leg Sunday, Nov. 6 Los Angeles at Colorado, 12 p.m.

THIRD ROUND Conference Championships (two-leg, total goals series) EASTERN CONFERENCE First Leg Tuesday, Nov. 22 Teams and Site TBD, 6 p.m.

Second Leg Wednesday, Nov. 30 Teams and Site TBD, 5 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE First Leg Sunday, Nov. 20 Teams and Site, 6 p.m.

Second Leg Sunday, Nov. 27 Teams and Site, 2 p.m.

MLS CUP Saturday, Dec. 10 Eastern Champion vs. Western Champion, 8 p.m.

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Hayes scores in 10th round of shootout

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bruins 4, Lightning 3 (OT)

T

AMPA, Fla. (AP) — Boston Bruins coach Claude Julien had a gut feeling about Jimmy Hayes and was right.

Hayes scored in the 10th round of a shootout, Tuukka Rask won his sixth straight game to start the season and the Bruins beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-3 on Thursday night.

“Jimmy Hayes is a pretty good shooter,” Julien said.

“He’s one of those guys that has a quick release. I felt good about putting him out there. He didn’t disappoint.”

Hayes entered 0 for 4 in shootouts and has gone 26 games without a goal in regulation.

Tampa Bay’s Brayden Point and Boston’s Riley Nash both scored in the fourth round, but Rask and Andrei Vasilevskiy were strong during the shootout as Boston won 2-1.

Brandon Carlo, Ryan Spooner and David Pastrnak scored in regulation for the Bruins, who finished a 3-1 road trip.

“Start a little streak on the winning side of things is a lot more fun for us,” Carlo said. “Plane rides are a lot better back.”

The Lightning got two goals from Tyler Johnson.

Victor Hedman had the other Tampa Bay goal in the team’s first home game since a 3-3 trip.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Los Angeles D Tom Gilbert three games for boarding Anaheim F Nick Ritchie during a Nov. 1 game.

ANAHEIM DUCKS — Released LW Mason Raymond. Sent D Jacob Larsson to Frolunda (Swedish League).

ARIZONA COYOTES — Recalled C Christian Dvorak from Tucson (AHL).

American Hockey League BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Reassigned C Kyle Schempp and D Matt Finn to Missouri (ECHL).

SAN DIEGO GULLS — Announced D Shea Theodore was reassigned to the team by Anaheim (NHL). Recalled D Brian Cooper from Utah (ECHL).

Reassigned G Kevin Boyle to Utah.

BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Exercised the 2017 contract option on RHP Clay Buchholz and DH David Ortiz. Declined the 2017 contract option on C Ryan Hanigan. Reinstated 3B Pablo Sandoval, OF-C Blake Swihart and RHPs Carson Smith and Brandon Workman from the 60-day DL. Reinstated INF Josh Rutledge from the 60-day DL and sent him outright to Pawtucket (IL). Promoted Jared Banner to vice-president, player personnel Brian Bannister to vice-president, pitching development and assistant pitching coach Ben Crockett to vice-president, player development Gus Quattlebaum to vice-president, professional scouting Mike Rikard to vice-president, amateur scouting Zack Scott to vice-president, baseball research & development Frank Wren to senior vice-president, player personnel Mike Regan was promoted to assistant director, baseball administration Brad Pearson to director of sports medicine service & head athletic trainer and Blair Henry to major league scout. Named Dave Bush pitching development analyst Paul Toboni assistant director, amateur scouting Laz Gutierrez mental skills co-ordinator Jon Jochim assistant athletic trainer and Tim Huff major league scout.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Declined the 2017 contract option on RHP Matt Albers. Reinstated 3B Matt Davidson and RHP Jake Petricka from the 60day DL. Sent OF J.B. Shuck outright to Charlotte (IL).

Released RHP Daniel Webb.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Named Thad Levine senior vice-president, general manager.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Named Dom Chiti director of pitching and Dave Wallace special assistant to pitching.

CINCINNATI REDS — Traded LHP John Lamb to Tampa Bay Rays for cash.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Agreed to terms with manager Mike Matheny on a three-year contract extension through the 2020 season.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Exercised the 2017 contract option on LHP Matt Moore. Sent C Tony Sanchez outright to the minor leagues.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Exercised the 2017 contract option on LHP Gio Gonzalez. Declined the 2017 contract option on RHP Yusmeiro Petit.

Eastern League BINGHAMTON — Announced it changed its nickname to the Rumble Ponies.

American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS — Exercised the 2017 contract options on LHP Tyler Alexander, RHP Jose Almarante, RHP Brian Ernst, RHP Roman Madrid, OF Kes Carter, OF Keury DeLaCruz, INF Dustin Geiger, INF Michael Gilmartin, OF Brian Humphries, LHP Mike Mason, LHP Will Mathis, INF Josh Mazzola, RHP Patrick Mincey, RHP Richie Mirowski, INF Ryan Pineda, RHP Dylan Mouzakes, C Charlie Valerio, RHP Taylor Stanton, RHP Colton Reavis, LHP Will Solomon, C Ryan Wagner and RHP Brett Zawacki.

Can-Am League OTTAWA CHAMPIONS — Sent RHP Laetten Galbraith to Gary SouthShore (AA) to complete an earlier trade.

FOOTBALL National Football League CINCINNATI BENGALS — Waived CB Chris Lewis-Harris.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Waived FB Rod Smith.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Released WR Josh Huff.

Indoor Football League SPOKANE EMPIRE — Signed OL Bill Vavau.

OLYMPIC SPORTS USA Wrestling USAW — Named Brent Metcalf national freestyle developmental coach.

SOCCER National Women’s Soccer League CHICAGO RED STARS — Traded M Amanda Da Costa to Boston for its 2017 third- and fourth-round draft picks.

COLLEGE OREGON — Suspended LB Eddie Heard indefinitely following his arrest on misdemeanour assault and harassment charges.

SC-AIKEN — Announced resignation of athletic director Randy Warrick effective May 31, 2017.

SOCCER

Harvard suspends men’s team over sexual comments

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

B

OSTON (AP) — Harvard University suspended its men’s soccer team for the remainder of the season because of sexual comments made about members of the women’s soccer team.

University President Drew Faust said in a statement Thursday night that an investigation into the 2012 team found that their “appalling” actions were not isolated to one year or the actions of a few, but appeared to be more widespread across the team.

“The decision to cancel a season is serious and consequential, and reflects Harvard’s view that both the team’s behaviour and the failure to be forthcoming when initially questioned are completely unacceptable, have no place at Harvard, and run counter to the mutual respect that is a core value of our community,” Faust said.

A 2012 document uncov-

ered last month by The Harvard Crimson student newspaper rated the attractiveness of recruits on the women’s team and included lewd comments about them.

“I was saddened and disappointed to learn that the extremely offensive ‘scouting report’ produced by the 2012 men’s soccer team continued through the current season,” Dean Rakesh Khurana said.

“As I have stated, such behaviour is antithetical to Harvard’s fundamental values.”

Athletics Director Robert Scalise sent an email to student athletes Thursday announcing that the university was cancelling the remainder of the team’s season, including postseason play.

The men’s soccer team is currently in first place in the Ivy League. Scalise said the team would forfeit its remaining games and decline any opportunity to achieve an Ivy League championship or participate in the NCAA tournament this year.

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VISA wages war with Manitoba Walmarts

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The credit card giant has launched an advertising campaign in which it offers a $10 credit to Manitoba cardholders who spend $50 or more at grocery stores in the province.

Cardholders must register their number before Nov. 15 at visa.ca/ Manitoba and they’ll automatically receive the credit within 15 days of making their purchase.

Visa is in the midst of a fee dispute with Walmart, which stopped accepting the card at its 16 Manitoba stores on Oct. 24.

The retail giant vowed in June to stop accepting Visa at all of its more than 400 Canadian outlets if Visa doesn’t lower its credit card fee, which it charges to all of its retail customers.

A month later, Walmart started banning Visa cards at its stores in Thunder Bay. The ad campaign doesn’t mention Walmart or the fee dispute. Carla Hindman, a spokeswoman for Visa Canada, said it’s not unusual for the company to conduct promotions that encourage cardholders to use their Visa cards in new and different places.

Asked if this particular promotion was aimed at encouraging them to buy their groceries from someone other than Walmart, Hindman said, “We hope this eases the inconvenience for Visa cardholders in Manitoba who

‘VISA IS POSITIONING ITSELF AS THE SAVIOUR OF CONSUMERS AND SAYING, ‘LOOK, WALMART IS COMPLAINING ABOUT OUR FEE BUT HERE IS WHAT WE’RE TRYING TO DO FOR YOU.’ IT’S THE BATTLE OF WHO IS BEING THE PROTECTOR OF THE GROCERY SHOPPER.’ - PROF. SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS, A CANADIAN FOOD-INDUSTRY ANALYST AT DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY

cannot use their card everywhere they may want to.”

She said Visa ran a similar ad in Thunder Bay after Walmart banned its cards in its stores there. The offer there was a $25 credit for every grocery purchase of $75 or more.

Alex Roberton, a spokesman for Walmart Canada, said “We don’t comment on how other organizations want to promote their brand.”

Prof. Sylvain Charlebois, a Canadian food-industry analyst at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, described this latest move by Visa as interesting and unusual.

“Visa is positioning itself as the saviour of consumers and saying, ‘Look, Walmart is complaining about our fee but here is what we’re trying to do for you,”’ he said. “It’s the battle of who is being the protector of the grocery shopper.”

Walmart said it pays more than $100 million in fees annually for customers to use the various brands of credit cards, and that Visa’s fees are too high. It hasn’t said how soon it may extend the ban to other cities and provinces.

Visa — Canada’s largest credit card

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Visa Canada is offering its Manitoba cardholders a reward if they buy their groceries somewhere other than Walmart. firm — has said it offered Walmart one of the lowest rates for any merchant in the country, but the retailer wants more. It said if it gives in, Walmart’s fees would be lower than those charged to other grocers and many of its other retail customers.

Charlebois said that’s the crux of the issue for Visa Canada, and the

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Canada’s largest pipeline operator said it lost $103 million or 11 cents a share in the quarter ending Sept. 30, compared with a loss of $609 million or 72 cents per share in the same quarter last year.

Revenue in the quarter totalled nearly $8.49 billion, up from $8.32 billion a year ago.

The Calgary-based company said adjusted earnings for the quarter were $437 million, up from $399 million in the same quarter last year, as

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“I think Visa may actually see this as a significant threat which could impact their entire business model, not just their business with Walmart,” he said.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Concerns about next week’s U.S. election hung over traders’ heads Thursday, pushing North American markets into the red.

“There seem to be a lot of concerns around the upcoming election in just a few days,” said Steve Belisle, a senior portfolio manager of equities at Manulife Asset Management.

Hillary Clinton is still maintaining the lead but the gap between her and Donald Trump has narrowed.

“The polls keep shifting and now you have Clinton losing ground and Trump regaining some strength,” said Belisle.

“The race is now pretty close so it’s pretty uncertain and the market doesn’t like that.”

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average lost 28.97 points to 17,930.67, while the S&P 500 gave back 9.28 points to 2,088.66. The Nasdaq

composite shed 47.16 points to 5,058.41.

North of the border, Toronto’s S&P/TSX composite index slipped 11.30 points to close at 14,583.42, even as gold stocks — used as a safe haven in times of uncertainty — gained 1.6 per cent.

Gold stocks are “pretty much the only sector that’s been gaining much in the past few days,” Belisle said.

The health-care sector of the TSX slumped 3.98 per cent, while utilities stocks were down 0.93 per cent and energy stocks lost 0.66 per cent.

The Canadian dollar was at 74.72 cents US, up 0.07 of a U.S. cent from Wednesday’s close.

The increased likelihood that the U.S. Federal Reserve will hike its trend-setting interest rates in December is also weighing on markets, said Belisle.

BUSINESS

IN SHORT Key question on budget decisions, says Morneau: Do they grow the economy?

OTTAWA — Any new spending measures being pitched for the federal budget will have to demonstrate potential to help grow the economy if they expect to find favour with the Liberal government, Canada’s finance minister says.

Bill Morneau said that as he crafts his second budget as finance minister, the economic-growth test is the first of multiple screens he is using to ensure debt levels don’t spiral out of control.

Too late, the opposition parties might jeer.

The Liberals used up a lot of their fiscal wiggle room this week with a

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Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.11 Cdn. National Railway . . 83.48 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 188.69 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 37.90 Capital Power Corp . . . . 20.29 Cervus Equipment Corp 12.71 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 53.26 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 54.96 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 23.75 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.78 General Motors Co. . . . . 31.07 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 30.55 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.83 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 54.08 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 30.22 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.40 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 5.74 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 57.55

Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 131.88 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.29 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 17.05 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 65.03 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 30.69 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.63 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 21.12 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 24.52 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 10.99 First Quantum Minerals . 11.93 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 20.39 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 6.00 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.65 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.20 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 21.58 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.850 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 28.23

Consumer The central bank opted to keep rates unchanged after their two-day-long meeting, but they left the door open to an increase next month.

U.S. economic data has been strong recently, adding to the probability of a rate hike, said Belisle.

“The rate hike is now becoming well accepted by the market,” he said. “I think it’s a very likely scenario.”

Belisle noted investors are also eagerly awaiting Friday’s U.S. jobs figures, which will help confirm the likelihood that the Fed will proceed with the increase.

In commodities, the December crude oil contract fell 68 cents to US$44.66 per barrel and December natural gas was down two cents at US$2.77 per mmBTU. The December gold contract fell $4.90 to US$1,303.30 an ounce and December copper

fall economic update that included $32 billion in infrastructure spending over the next 11 years, accompanied by an equivalent amount of red ink on the federal books.

The document also warned the federal balance sheet would stay in the red even longer than the Liberals first promised — $114.9 billion in deficits between 2016-17 and 2020-21, up from the $83.2 billion outlined in the last budget.

Nor have the Liberals said when they expect to see the budget back in balance, instead choosing to hold to a decidedly less sexy measure of ongoing fiscal prudence: the ratio of debt to gross domestic product.

SNC-Lavalin looking to consolidate with sale of headquarters MONTREAL — SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. is looking to reduce its Montreal real estate footprint by selling its global headquarters and consolidating into fewer buildings.

The engineering and construction company said it remains committed to Quebec’s largest city and its activities in the province, but it is

contracts were up two cents at US$2.25 a pound.

In economic news, the U.S. Labor Department reported that claims for unemployment aid climbed by 7,000 to a threemonth high of 265,000.

However, claims still remain at a low level, suggesting that most American workers enjoy job security.

Also on Thursday, the U.S. Labour Department reported that productivity increased at a 3.1 per cent rate in the third quarter — the fastest pace in two years.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Thursday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,583.42, down 11.30 points Dow — 17,930.67, down 28.97 points S&P 500 — 2,088.66, down 9.28 points

Friday, November 4, 2016 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 22.51 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 28.64 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 55.21 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.16 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 24.52 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 40.94 Canyon Services Group. . 5.11 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 18.34 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1700 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 13.19 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.570 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 83.66 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 46.58 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.49 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 14.13 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.67 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 1.88 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.13 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.81

Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 39.55 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.76 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.30 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 53.00 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0700

Nasdaq — 5,058.41, down 47.16 points Currencies: Cdn — 74.72 cents US, up 0.07 of a cent Pound — C$1.6675, up 2.12 cents Euro — C$1.4864, up 0.06 of a cent Euro — US$1.1107, up 0.15 of a cent Oil futures: US$44.66 per barrel, down 68 cents (December contract) Gold futures: US$1,303.30 per oz., down $4.90 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $25.443, down 51.2 cents $817.99 kg., down $16.46

$507.20 Jan. ‘17 $1.60 lower $514.20 March ‘17 $1.80 lower $518.50 May ‘17 $2.30 lower $520.20 July ‘17 $2.80 lower $519.10 Nov. ‘17 $1.00 lower $495.40 Jan. ‘18 $0.80 lower $497.80 March ‘18 $0.80 lower $499.10 May ‘18 $0.80 lower $500.20 July ‘18 $0.80 lower $500.20 Nov. ‘18 $0.80 lower $500.20.

Barley (Western): Dec. ‘16 unchanged $132.50 March ‘17 unchanged $134.50 May ‘17 unchanged $135.50 July ‘17 unchanged $135.50 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $135.50 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $135.50 March ‘18 unchanged $135.50 May ‘18 unchanged $135.50 July ‘18 unchanged $135.50 Oct. ‘18 unchanged $135.50 Dec. ‘18 unchanged $135.50.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 309,520 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 309,520.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov. ‘16 $3.00 lower

looking to sell the 21-floor downtown building and adjacent land and then lease back office space as part of its drive to cut costs.

SNC-Lavalin (TSX:SNC) has trimmed $95.3 million in costs over nine months of the year, near its $100-million goal for the entire year.

But while it has made progress on costs, the company said its earnings plummeted in the third quarter due to unfavourable conditions at two oil and gas projects in the Middle East that the company has previously warned would hurt its 2016 results.

Starbucks sees key sales measure rise, profit increase NEW YORK — Starbucks reported a 23 per cent increase in its fourthquarter profit Thursday, thanks to rising sales at its coffee shops and benefiting from an extra week in the period.

The results beat Wall Street expectations, and Starbucks also raised its dividend.

Seattle-based Starbucks said its fourth-quarter sales rose five per cent at established stores in the Americas, which includes the U.S., its biggest market. That was above the 4.9 per cent rise analysts expected. Global sales rose four per cent at established stores, which was below the 4.9 per cent increase analysts expected. Sales fell one per cent at established stores in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and they rose one per cent in China and the Asia Pacific region.

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 84.47 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 71.62 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.03 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.49 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 33.15 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 35.64 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 92.00 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.14 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 47.11 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.980 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 82.73 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 44.61 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.38

CEO Howard Schulz cited uncertainty about next week’s U.S. presidential election and the popularity of online shopping as he spoke to investors on a conference call.

“Wherever we have been,” he said, “I don’t think we’ve ever witnessed such concern about what could happen in the U.S. as a result of the election.”

Man drops suit over choking on Popeyes chicken GULFPORT, Miss. — A Mississippi attorney has dropped his lawsuit filed against Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen after he says he choked on a piece of chicken when the fast-food restaurant failed to provide him a knife in the drive-thru.

Paul Newton Jr. of Gulfport tells The Sun Herald (http://bit.ly/2eZTmci) he decided not to pursue the matter further citing “extreme comments” directed at his family.

Newton says the only utensil he was given last November at the Gulfport restaurant was a spork.

The lawsuit says because Newton didn’t receive a plastic knife, his only option was to hold the piece of chicken with his hands and tear off pieces with his teeth, causing him to choke.

The lawsuit says Newton underwent emergency surgery to remove the piece of chicken from his throat.

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FROM PAGE 33 Not long into our watch, illuminated splotches started to appear on the water’s surface. Each flash represented a condensed love story: Boy worm meets girl worm. They dance, he fertilizes, and they split. The male then bids the world farewell. “It’s not a bad way to go,” said the captain. “He probably has a smile on his face.”

The coupling ritual, which lasts about 15 minutes, occurs in a specific place — off the northeast tip of Providenciales, or Provo — three to five days after the full moon. Like Odontosyllis enopla, many visitors also stick close to one island. They plant their sun umbrella in Provo, the entry point for all international air passengers, or Grand Turk, the capital and cruise ship port that received more than 900,000 oceangoers last year.

Despite the country’s binary name, Turks and Caicos is not a duo like Batman and Robin. The British overseas territory encompasses 40 islands and cays, including eight inhabited isles, that hang like extra links off the Bahamian chain. The Turks Island Passage separates Caicos to the northwest and Turks to the east. Puddle-jumpers bridge the 35-km-wide divide; ferries ford the shorter passages; and kayaks span the smaller gaps. And on one tiny stretch between Caicos and Long Cay, I nearly hitched a ride from a passing stingray. ★★★ A big red bar divides Provo’s timeline into Before Club Med and After Club Med. The landmark year was 1984, when the country’s first big resort opened, kindling a hotel-building spree and tourist boom.

In B.C.M., the third-largest island was home to about 100 people and one or two modest lodgings. The roads were unpaved, and phone service and electricity were spotty. In A.C.M., nearly 24,000 residents — out of a total population of about 32,000 — inhabit the island with the only international airport. (Caicos plans to add a second facility next year.) More than a dozen hotels, including the families-gone-crazy Beaches, huddle along the 19-km-long Grace Bay. The Ritz-Carlton is the latest property angling for a spot on the pearly-white-

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western edge, but turned around twothirds of the way to rest my tender arches. The following day, I rounded the unexplored bend to meet a modern-love treasure hunter.

On a weekday afternoon, John Galleymore was wading in waist-high water, a few feet from the snorkeling spot. He wore bulky headphones and a long-sleeved T-shirt that read, “Lost Jewelry.” He gripped a metal pole in each gloved hand. Every so often, he would scoop up wet sand and toss the debris onto the beach.

The Provo resident manages Bruce Willis’s vacation house on nearby Parrot Cay, but during his downtime, he hauls his metal detector around the island scouring for valuables. His first client was a distraught older woman who had lost a family heirloom while sunbathing. He retrieved from the

sand the Star of David charm, which her grandmother had worn through World War II. Since that 2014 discovery, John has recovered dozens of tourists’ engagement rings, diamond wedding bands, keys, earrings and necklaces. (He doesn’t charge for the service but accepts tips and beer money.) He also uncovered an early 18th-century Spanish silver coin that he will donate to the local museum and an expensive dive watch that he wears on his wrist.

The pieces “don’t go far, unless there’s a storm,” he said. Speaking generally, “If I know where it is, I can find basically anything.”

For his most recent case, John had questioned the New Yorker with the bare finger about his whereabouts the day the ring went missing.

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FROM PAGE 34 The visitor told him it had slipped off between the Bight Reef sign and the buoys marking the snorkeling zone. After a 10-minute search in the water, John returned to shore and held out the basket. I peeked inside and saw a thick titanium wedding band nestled on a bed of sand and seaweed. ★★★ Hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30, but the offseason slows to a one-legged crawl from late August through September, when islanders take their own vacations. There are pros and cons to visiting Turks and Caicos during this period. On the plus side, you will bump into fewer tourists (a 20 to 30 per cent drop from high season), pay lower hotel rates (my Club Med stay was half-off) and swim in calmer seas (winter storms can churn up the Atlantic). The downsides include hotel and restaurant closings, shortened business hours, near-deserted islands, the threat of a hurricane and a dearth of kayak buddies to accompany you to Little Water Cay. Big Blue Unlimited organizes ecotours on Provo and North and Middle Caicos, a pair of bridge-linked islands accessible by ferry. The company had led the only glowworm tour during my September visit (in busier months, several outfitters go out) and arranges guided kayak trips to the iguana sanctuary on Little Water Cay — with

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So I set off alone, in a rented kayak.

At Blue Haven Marina, a staff member traced the zigzaggy route. I followed her finger past the docks, along the mangroves, around a speck of land and to the nature reserve. I lazily paddled on water the texture of bubble wrap. I tied up and hopped onto a wooden boardwalk leading to the visitors’ center. En route, I heard a loud rustling in the dry brush. I let out a startled scream. An iguana with a mohawk of spikes scurried to the edge of the walkway, pulled his body up and over the edge and crossed to the other side. He carried a large piece of fruit in his mouth. Three more iguanas surfaced, and a chase ensued. This time I cheered.

In the empty visitors’ center, I read about the country’s largest indigenous land animal. The scaly head count, I learned, is about 50,000, the most robust population in the Caribbean. My self-education was interrupted by the buzz of a boat motor and the slap of feet on wood. The sanctuary guide greeted me and apologized for his absence: He had popped over to Provo for lunch. He offered to show me a pond out back, where the iguanas often loll in the sun like hung over wedding guests. But then we noticed a curtain of rain unfurling across the sky. Thunder rumbled. We retreated to the hut, where, in the spirit of cultural exchange, I introduced him to Tinder and he explained the meaning of “red-eye” (a jealous person).

The droplets soon eased up, and a

clear blue patch materialized through the menacing clouds. I gathered my belongings and jumped into the kayak. On the return, I paddled twice as fast on water that had turned five shades darker. ★★★ In the afternoon, I switched to the aquatic portion of my amphibious tour. Ketyn, who occupied the captain’s chair, steered the boat to a reef nicknamed the Aquarium. I floated beside flashy angelfish and barracuda as long as broom handles. Catrell, the first mate, motioned for me to follow him. We swam to a coral ledge where a nurse shark often lounges. The boudoir was empty.

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Ketyn wasn’t giving up on our shark quest. He navigated the boat to Long Cay. A dark shadow — yes, with a fin — appeared a few feet below. We also spied a creature drifting along the ocean floor like a stealth bomber.

I pulled on my mask and plunged into the water just as a stingray was coasting by. I hovered a few feet above the fish; we made eye contact.

Before returning to shore, Ketyn swung by Starfish Village, a five-mile underwater corridor of citrus-hued starfish. I took a quick census — 25 within close range — before we had to leave, so that I could catch my flight to Provo. However, after takeoff, I peered through the window at the water below and resumed counting the stars in the sea.

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Weighed down by running attire T

wice it happened in the past week.

You know that awkward feeling when you show up to a party overdressed?

That’s exactly how I felt when I was passed by a speedy runner who was dressed only in a Crystal light jacket and tights.

Rhyno The next day, four or five runners ran by me wearing only shorts and a T-shirt.

I ran in my usual in-between fall and winter running kit – jacket, cap, gloves, iPod, bandana, Garmin and

hydration pack.

You’re right if you are thinking that’s a little much for a breezy 8K around the Bower Ponds area on a cool night in late-October.

But I am one of those runners who likes to be prepared.

A lot can happen on a short run.

You never know when it will start snowing or raining, or when you need to call somebody.

I always feel completely justified in wearing my hydration pack so I can carry my iPhone, some cash and keys.

I need my Garmin to prove my run happened, and I need my iPod to get caught up on podcasts.

Still, as those two groups passed

me, I had another thought.

All those runners had something in common – they were bloody fast.

You have seen these runners before.

They wear next to nothing and run like the wind. Usually lined up at the front in races, these runners win all the races and take home all the medals.

I have a theory.

The reason they are wearing so little is because they know they will not be on their feet as long as those slow or average runners. Makes perfect sense. Why wear all that extra clothing?

Maybe it is a good idea to run naked now and then.

And by naked I mean free of all your running gear – Garmin, iPod, hy-

dration pack, or whatever.

Sometimes we get stuck in our running habits and routines. Forgetting to charge my Garmin or losing my iPod has ruined many good runs.

I couldn’t enjoy the simple act of running because I was too annoyed that my run wasn’t recorded, or I couldn’t listen to music. I felt so hard done by.

Crazy, right?

Makes me think that those half-naked speedy runners are on to something. They weren’t weighed down.

They were smiling and chatting and nodding.

Maybe running naked is my next challenge.

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A: The answer may very well be to eat less and exercise more, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use some support in doing so. There are all kinds of ways a therapist could help, from identifying and troubleshooting emotional components of overeating to developing a more concrete and motivational plan for movement and physical activity.

No two people’s health habits and weight histories are exactly alike, and yours might involve patterns you’ve never noticed before. Two heads can be better than one in changing these behaviours – plus, it never hurts to have additional accountability when making lifestyle changes. Finally, you’re in a new phase of life and going through significant transitions – perhaps there’s even more to talk about than food?

Q. I am a middle-aged, married mom who longs to have more friends.

My friends get passive-aggressive and negative, with comments about my

gray hair or small house. I have health issues to address as they are aware of.

I am reluctant to talk to them about having hurt feelings because I do not want them to think I am overly sensitive. Women should be uplifting, not diminishing others by making petty comments.

A: It’s not “overly sensitive” to be annoyed by truly annoying people.

Why is silently putting up with their misbehaviour a more favorable alternative? You deserve better. The value of friendship is diminished when those friends become stressors, so I see two preferable actions: talk to them about how their comments affect you, or do what you can to seek out new friends. Heck, do both.

Think back to how you fell into these friendships and whether there were reasons you may have chosen people who weren’t great for you, and how you can avoid that this time around. Think about your interests, your community, your children’s friends’ families and activities, and even whether you can connect with others with your same health concerns. Finally, keep trying. Meeting the right people and developing a friendship takes time, but it’s time well spent.

Andrea Bonior, a Washington-area clinical psychologist, writes a weekly relationships advice column in The Washington Post’s Express daily tabloid and is author of “The Friendship Fix.” For more information, see www.drandreabonior.com.

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Municipal Planning Commission Decisions On November 2, 2016 the Municipal Planning Commission issued the following decision for development permit applications.

Permitted Use Approval: Laredo 1. True Line Contracting Ltd. – site development for the Permitted Use of a new Semi-Detached Dwelling unit, with a site coverage maximum requirement of 181.34 m2, a 32.34 m2 (21.7%) variance; a minimum rear yard requirement of 5.89 m, a 1.61 m (21.5%) variance; and a minimum rear yard projection requirement of 2.84 m, a 1.66 m (36.9%) variance, to be located at 42 Little Close.

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Abbey Brandon, posing for a photo for her social media accounts and blog ‘District Dress Up,’ is making money as a social media “influencer,” with brands paying her in fees or free products to wear their clothes and accessories on various platforms.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Layers and layers of strategy in Instagram feeds

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ASHINGTON - It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that Abbey Brandon is a one-woman start-up.

With her blog, District Dress Up, and related Instagram and Twitter feeds, Brandon is making money as a social media “influencer,” with brands paying her in fees or free products to wear their clothes and accessories on these platforms. She has done sponsorships with the likes of Old Navy, French Connection and Loft.

The stylish photos she and many other influencers post online are designed to look effortless and natural. But make no mistake: Each image is the product of several layers of carefully honed business strategy.

Take, for example, a recent series of sponsored posts that Brandon did for Nordstrom Rack, a brand seeking publicity surrounding the opening of a store in downtown Washington, D.C. Brandon said she replied yes within four minutes of receiving the email pitch – “If I’m not doing it, someone else can,” she explained during a photo shoot two days later.

Before long, she had a phone call with a brand representative to talk through details. And then she was on an almost four-hour hunt at local Rack stores to put together outfits for the autumn-themed shoot. This was not as simple as just picking out pieces that fit her personal style: She also was trying to zero in on garments that would be available both online and in stores, an effort to maximize the number of sales she could drive and the return on investment for the brand.

During the photo shoot, there was still more tactical work to be done to make sure the garments were shown in a way that would make people want to buy them.

“I think the dark door is not letting the pants pop,” she told the photographer at one point during

the session, prompting a move several feet away to get a lighter backdrop.

Later in the same shoot, she made sure a Trina Turk coat was photographed from different angles to show off its unique, asymmetrical hem. When getting close-ups of a purse and wallet, she added some colored leaves to the frame to pump up the seasonal vibe. After the shoot, she spent 30 minutes culling through the photos and selecting favorites, and another three hours designing the posts for her blog. All told, Brandon said she spent about 16 hours creating the Nordstrom Rack content, including elements such as hairstyling and makeup before the shoot, and the time spent responding to reader comments.

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SHOWTIMES FOR FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4, 2016 TO THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2016 TROLLS (G) CLOSED CAPTION & DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO, NO PASSES FRI 5:30, 8:00, 10:25; SAT-SUN 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25; MON-THURS 7:45, 10:10 TROLLS 3D (G) CC/DVS, NO PASSES FRI 5:00, 7:30, 9:55; SAT-SUN 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55; MON-THURS 7:15, 9:40 MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN (PG) (NOT REC. FOR YOUNG CHILDREN,FRIGHTENING SCENES,VIOLENCE) CLOSED CAPTION & DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO FRI-SUN 6:30; MON-THURS 6:55 DOCTOR STRANGE (PG) (FRIGHTENING SCENES,VIOLENCE,NOT REC. FOR YOUNG CHILDREN) CLOSED CAPTION & DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO, NO PASSES FRI 3:40, 6:40; SAT-SUN 12:50, 3:40, 6:40; MONTHURS 6:30 DOCTOR STRANGE 3D (PG) (NOT REC. FOR YOUNG CHILDREN,VIOLENCE,FRIGHTENING SCENES) CC/ DVS, NO PASSES FRI 4:10, 7:10, 9:30, 10:00; SATSUN 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:30, 10:00; MON-THURS 7:00, 9:15, 9:45 DOCTOR STRANGE 3D (PG) (NOT REC. FOR YOUNG CHILDREN,VIOLENCE,FRIGHTENING SCENES) ULTRAAVX, NO PASSES FRI 5:00, 7:45, 10:30; SAT-SUN 11:30, 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30; MON-THURS 7:30, 10:15 INFERNO (14A) (VIOLENCE) CLOSED CAPTION & DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO FRI 4:20, 7:20, 10:10; SAT-SUN 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10; MON-THURS 7:10, 10:00 INFERNO (14A) (VIOLENCE) STAR & STROLLERS SCREENING WED 1:30 DEEPWATER HORIZON (PG) (COARSE LAN-

GUAGE,NOT REC. FOR YOUNG CHILDREN) CLOSED CAPTION & DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO FRI-SUN 9:40; MONTHURS 9:35 KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES (PG) (SEXUALLY SUGGESTIVE SCENES) CLOSED CAPTION & DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO FRI-SUN 3:55, 9:25; MONTHURS 9:50 MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN 3D (PG) (VIOLENCE,NOT REC. FOR YOUNG CHILDREN,FRIGHTENING SCENES) CC/DVS SAT-SUN 1:00 STORKS (G) CLOSED CAPTION & DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO FRI 4:30, 7:00; SAT-SUN 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00; MON-THURS 6:45 THE ACCOUNTANT (14A) (VIOLENCE) CLOSED CAPTION & DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO FRI,SUN 3:30, 6:30; SAT 12:20, 3:30, 6:30; MON-THURS 6:35 JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK (14A) (VIOLENCE) CLOSED CAPTION & DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO FRI 4:00, 6:50, 9:45; SAT-SUN 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45; MON-THURS 6:40, 9:30 JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK (14A) (VIOLENCE) STAR & STROLLERS SCREENING WED 1:30 HACKSAW RIDGE (14A) (GORY BRUTAL VIOLENCE) CLOSED CAPTION & DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO, NO PASSES FRI 3:50, 7:00, 10:05; SAT 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:05; SUN 12:30, 3:50, 7:00, 10:05; MON-THURS 7:05, 10:05 I’M NOT ASHAMED (PG) (MATURE SUBJECT MATTER) FRI-SUN 9:25; MON-THURS 9:10 AIR BUD: GOLDEN RECEIVER () SAT 11:00 THE STING () SUN 12:55

You may appeal discretionary approvals and denials to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on November 18, 2016. You may not appeal a permitted use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw.

Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8132.

Development Officer Approvals On November 1, 2016, the Development Officer issued approvals for the following applications: Permitted Use Bower 1. Hewitt, J. – a 0.42 m variance to the minimum rear yard, from the doors to the lane, of an existing detached garage, located at 163 Barrett Drive.

Clearview 2. Compass Geomatics Ltd. – a 0.71 m variance to the minimum side yard, to an existing deck, located at 30 Chappel Drive.

Oriole Park 3. Compass Geomatics Ltd. – a 0.56 m variance to the minimum rear yard, from the doors to the lane, and a 0.10 m variance to the minimum side yard, to an existing detached garage located at 11 Oswald Close.

Sunnybrook 4. Blais, K. & Gray, J. – a 1.1 m variance to the maximum height of a proposed front yard fence, to be located at 48 Sherwood Crescent.

Discretionary Use Golden West 5. James Edward Professional Corporation – a health & medical services business (dental clinic), to be located at 202 & 203 6702 Golden West Avenue.

A Discretionary Use decision may be appealed to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on November 18, 2016. A Permitted Use decision may not be appealed unless it involves a variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw.

Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8190.

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Some immune-boosting cancer drugs may pose heart risks

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octors have found a disturbing downside to some powerful new drugs that harness the immune system to fight cancer: In rare cases, they may cause potentially fatal heart damage, especially when used together.

“The problem is, no one has this on their radar,” so patients are not routinely checked for it, said Dr. Javid Moslehi, head of a Vanderbilt University clinic specializing in heart risks from cancer therapies.

He led a report Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine describing two patients who died of heart trouble two weeks after receiving their first doses of two Bristol-Myers Squibb drugs, Opdivo and Yervoy, for the deadly skin cancer melanoma.

Two similar drugs also are on the market, and the study leaders believe they might pose heart risks, too.

“My sense is that this is a class effect, not limited to one drug,” Moslehi said.

The risks do not negate the huge benefits of these relatively new types of drugs, doctors stress. Called checkpoint inhibitors, they have trans-

formed treatment of several types of cancer by helping the immune system see and attack tumors.

In rare cases, the immune system seems to attack not only the tumour but also the heart and other muscles, causing dangerous inflammation and heart rhythm problems. Patients need to be told of the risks, monitored closely and treated quickly with medicines to quell the immune response if trouble develops.

Besides melanoma, the Opdivo-Yervoy combination is used to treat some lung cancers, though at different doses. Other checkpoint inhibitors include Genentech’s Tecentriq, for bladder cancer, and Merck & Co.’s Keytruda, which former President Jimmy Carter received for melanoma that spread to his brain. Many more are in testing.

There have been occasional, previous reports of heart troubles with these drugs. After the two recent deaths, doctors asked Bristol-Myers to check patient safety records on Opdivo and Yervoy.

As of April, 18 cases of serious heart inflammation were found among 20,594 patients receiving either or both drugs, a rate of 0.09 per cent. It was more severe and more common among people on both drugs, affect-

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ing 0.27 per cent of those patients.

Bristol-Myers scientists helped write the journal report, and some other authors consult for the company.

Studies have shown that the drug combination gives a stronger anti-cancer effect than either drug alone, but “we’ve known this is a double-edged sword” because of the risk of over-stimulating the immune system, said Dr. Jeffrey Sosman of Northwestern University in Chicago, who treated the two patients who died.

“The big question is — is there enough advantage to using the combination, which is much more toxic,

than a single drug,” he said.

That’s a larger question facing the cancer field, not just with immune therapies. Some of the newer gene-targeting drugs also have produced major side effects when used in combination. Yet many doctors believe that combos may be the best way to get cancer to go into remission and stay there longer, by shutting down multiple pathways the tumour employs at once.

Dr. Michael Atkins, deputy director of the Georgetown-Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, believes the heart problems with checkpoint inhibitors will turn out to be treatable in most patients.

“It just gives us a moment of pause,” said Atkins, who led a study that included one of the two patients who died. “This is a rare event … but it’s a particularly serious one.”

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Scientists study if Pap smear could spot birth defects early

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Women typically get a Pap during early pregnancy, and Wayne State University researchers report Wednesday that they can capture enough fetal DNA from the cells that test extracts to check for genetic abnormalities.

The new study is very small, and much more research is needed. But if the approach eventually pans out, researchers say it might be possible to use as early as five weeks into pregnancy and to detect more disorders noninvasively.

Aside from better known chromosome abnormalities such as Down syndrome, “there are about 6,000 other genetic disorders which we currently have a hard time to assess noninvasively and as early,” said Wayne State associate professor Sascha Drewlo, co-author of the study in Science Translational Medicine. He calls defects caused by single gene mutations “the biggest gap” in prenatal testing.

Today’s main options are invasive tests — amniocentesis and CVS, or chorionic villus sampling — that analyze a sample of amniotic fluid or placenta tissue. They carry a small risk of miscarriage. Amniocentesis typically is performed around 15 weeks and CVS around 10 weeks.

A blood test offers a slightly earlier and noninvasive option by analyz-

ing small amounts of fetal DNA that float in a pregnant woman’s bloodstream. Worrisome results are supposed to be verified by an invasive test. Early diagnosis isn’t just about deciding whether to go forward with a pregnancy but can affect prenatal care and what care a baby might need at birth.

It turns out that a small number of cells containing DNA of the forming fetus are shed into a mom-to-be’s reproductive tract, where the scrape of a routine Pap can collect them along with the woman’s own cervical cells.

They’re called trophoblasts, cells that start the placenta’s growth.

The first challenge is to separate those cells from mom’s. The Wayne State team, led by Drewlo and Professor D. Randall Armant, calls its method TRIC, for trophoblast retrieval isolation from the cervix.

They tested the approach in 20 pregnant women who had Paps between five weeks and 19 weeks gestation. The researchers reported on Wednesday that they could extract the trophoblasts and accurately map the DNA inside, a step to identifying genetic disorders.

That’s not the only potential use.

The researchers also are examining whether these cells may offer a warning of brewing problems with the placenta.

The work is intriguing but still preliminary, said Dr. Ronald Wapner, a prenatal screening specialist at Columbia University.

Especially this early in pregnancy, “we have to make sure the cells you get are truly representative of what’s going on in the fetus,” he said, some-

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Cancer centre bets big on experimental immunotherapy Suzanne McCarroll, a television news reporter in Denver, had been in remission from non-Hodgkin lymphoma for almost eight years when the cancer returned in May 2015. She had a stem-cell transplant, but the disease came back again in January. What, she wondered, should she do now?

After talking to her doctor and her brother, a neurobiologist at Harvard, McCarroll enrolled in an early-stage clinical trial using immunotherapy at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Researcher Center in Seattle. “It’s like taking your car to a mechanic,” said McCarroll. “At some point, you have to trust someone who knows more than you do.”

The trial was testing CAR T-cell therapy – in which immune cells are removed from the patient, genetically engineered to attack cancer cells and then reinfused – in patients with leukemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

On Thursday, test results showed that McCarroll was in remission and could head home to Colorado. McCarroll, who is 60, was one of the first patients treated at a new outpatient clinic at the cancer center, which is scheduled to open officially in December.

Gary Gilliland, president and director of the cancer centre, said in an interview that the clinic is unique in many ways. He said that it is the only stand-alone immunotherapy clinic that focuses primarily on using engineered T cells – and employs a strategy pioneered by Hutchinson to increase the T-cells’ cancer-fighting ability.

After removing T cells from the patients, he said, scientists remove non-

essential immune cells, resulting in a specific ratio of engineered helper and killer T cells. Hutchinson scientists believe the approach increases the growth of the cells when they are returned to patients, and may be the reason for the center’s impressive results in clinical trials involving patients with blood cancers.

In creating the clinic, Gilliland said, the cancer center is sending a broader message: “We believe these therapies have curative potential.”

Immunotherapy has emerged as the hottest field in medicine, with much of the focus on two new types of treatments: CAR T-cell therapy, which is still experimental and has mostly been used for blood cancers, and “checkpoint inhibitors,” which has been approved for solid tumours, such as melanoma and lung cancer.

Researchers are encouraged by the results, but caution that much more needs to be understood to make immunotherapy work for all patients and to stave off relapse, which is still a major issue. Combinations of the approaches are now being tested at Hutchinson and across the country.

The new Hutchinson facility will be named the Bezos Family Immunotherapy Clinic, reflecting $30 million in previous donations made by Jackie and Mike Bezos for the cancer centre’s immunotherapy work, Gilliland said. (Their son, Jeffrey P. Bezos, owns The Washington Post.) The contributions weren’t used for the clinic, which cost $7.2 million. Philanthropists have emerged as a major force in funding immunotherapy, with Sean Parker, Michael Bloomberg and Stanley Kimmel, among others, making sizable contributions to other medical centres.

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Singing about Alberta’s history

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

Red Deer’s travelling musician Charlie Jacobson comes across some odd-ball places on his tours.

While driving through Dead Man’s Flats, for instance, he became curious about how the hamlet south of Canmore got its name.

He discovered, from an off-highway information kiosk, that it goes back to a 1904 murder. A dairy farm worker shot his brother in cold blood and threw his body into the Bow River.

But the killer was later was acquitted of the crime by a jury, by reason of insanity.

“He was paranoid. He believed his brother was plotting to kill him,” said Jacobson, who used strands of this tragic story in his songwriting.

The rockin’ blues country singer plans to recount the tale musically in Dead Man’s Flats, which is slated for Jacobson’s upcoming new album, to be recorded early in 2017. Red Deer fans could get an early preview, however, when Jacobson performs with his band on Saturday, Nov. 12, at the Elks Lodge in Red Deer.

“I’ll be singing some tunes in sup-

port of my last album, Alberta Flood, but I’ll be doing some new songs, too,” said Jacobson, who’s gathered inspiration by crossing Canada six times over the past 12 months.

“I’ve only had my ‘92 Buick ‘Bluesmobile’ for a year but I must have put 100,000 kms on it,” he said, with a chuckle. “I like seeing news places.”

Some of his latest tunes were inspired by the Frank Slide disaster in the Crowsnest Pass, busking opportunities on Toronto streetcars, and the cross-Canada CN Rail journey (Train Whistle). Jacobson was one of the artists-on-board last summer, entertaining passengers between Edmonton and Toronto.

The idea of plane journeys also sparked some of his creativity. Jacobson wrote Cow Town Cowgirl after being introduced to a former Ontario flight attendant, who’d moved to Calgary later in life and became enraptured by the rural lifestyle. “She was living with friends on a ranch …”

This sort of chance meeting makes the Red Deer-raised blues musician rise above his road exhaustion to embrace his mobility. “It’s my job to be a travelling musician. I live in a motor home… and I like meeting new people …”

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Charlie Jacobson performs Saturday, Nov. 12, at Red Deer’s Elks Lodge. with bassist Andy Hamilton, drummer Kent Cadman and guitarist Bruce Wayne at Red Deer’s Elks Lodge. “It means a lot to have your friends and family there. It’s like, let’s party and celebrate!”

Jacobson will take the stage at Edmonton’s Commercial Hotel around Christmas time. After doing the same stint for the past two years, he was in-

spired to write Christmas at the Commercial Hotel, which will be released next month as a single.

The bonus, said Jacobson, will be getting to spend Christmas Day in Red Deer with his family.

For more information about the Elks Lodge show, please visit www. centralmusicfest.com. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com picture of himself alongside one of the signs via his Twitter account.

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Scary 2016 election attracts its first actual ghoul candidate BANGOR, Maine — An election cycle some have described as a fright appears to have attracted its first actual ghoul.

Signs are popping up around Bangor, Maine, advertising the campaign of Pennywise, the creepy clown from Stephen King’s 1986 novel It. The signs beseech residents to “Vote Pennywise” and include a picture of the clown showing his toothy smile.

Exactly what post Pennywise is running for is left unclear. The signs have been popping up around the downtown area of the city, the third largest in Maine.

King lives in Bangor and posted a

Ex-Spice Girl Melanie Brown going into Broadway’s ‘Chicago’ NEW YORK — America’s Got Talent judge Melanie Brown will soon remind Broadway audiences what kind of talent she’s got when she joins the musical Chicago, playing jailed killer Roxie Hart.

Brown, also known as Scary Spice during her time with the 1990s pop group the Spice Girls, starts Dec. 28 at the Ambassador Theatre. She follows an impressive list of stars in the role, including Marilu Henner, Ashlee Simpson and Christie Brinkley.

Brown has been a contestant on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars and was a judge on the Australian edition of The X Factor.

Set in the 1920s, “Chicago” is a scathing satire of how show business and the media make celebrities out of criminals. It has a Bob Fosse-inspired choreography, skimpy outfits and killer songs such as All That Jazz.

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Cole details life story in ‘Now I’m Catching On’

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ORONTO — Oh baby, Bob Cole knows hockey. But as his autobiography Now I’m Catching On reveals, the 83-year-old broadcaster has many more strings to his bow.

Cole called Bob Beamon’s world-record long jump at the 1968 Olympics, curled in the Brier, served as quiz master on Reach for the Top and worked for the Newfoundland government. He counts family, flying, dogs, Broadway shows and fly-fishing among his loves.

In short, he has also enjoyed — and continues to enjoy — a life well lived.

Cole’s life story, an enjoyable and easy read co-written by Stephen Brunt, explains the origins of his trademark “Oh Baby” call — “He’s been saying that around the house as long as I can remember,” daughter Megan says.

As for work, Cole says he first remembers using it to describe some memorable Mario Lemieux stickhandling in a 1991 playoff game against Minnesota.

“What a goal. What a move. Lemieux. Oh baby,” Cole said excitedly after Lemieux skated through the defence and deked the goalie.

“I don’t know when it’s going to come out. No idea … I don’t plan it.

It’s spontaneous,” he writes. “I don’t script the thing. It’s ad-libbed — and that’s what broadcasting’s all about.”

Cole says the experience of writing the book surprised him in how the memories came back.

“It was like yesterday,” he said in an interview.

Cole initially wondered who would be interested in his story “just because I do hockey games.”

His journey to the commentary booth is well worth reading, however.

As with most, his life journey was not that straight but filled with signposts.

At the age of 11, he was bed-ridden for almost five months due to a soccer injury. The neighbourhood helped him collect Quaker Oats box tops for a promotion that involved photos of NHL players. With the photos spread out on his bed in line formations, he’d listen to the VONF radio broadcasts of games. Years later, he still has his own system for writing down the lines for use in the broadcast booth.

Throughout the years, Cole has met a myriad of stars and personalities from Joe Louis and Mickey Mantle to Jesse Owens and Toots Shor, among others. Sometimes by chance, sometimes because Cole just knocked on a door. In 1956 on the way back from a trip to New York, the aspiring broadcaster decided to drop off an audition tape at Foster Hewitt’s Toronto radio station. To Cole’s surprise, Hewitt made time for him and listened to the tape right there and then.

Hewitt’s advice — to save the big call for the big play, to use different voice levels and to feel the flow of the game — has served Cole well throughout his career.

Beginning on radio, Cole looked to paint a picture with his calls — “You’ve got to take over somebody’s mind, try to get them into the building.”

Cole, however, says calling a game is not about him.

“As long as I can be part of the fan enjoying the game,” says Cole. “Really that’s what it is, that’s what it’s all about.”

Cole continues to do TV broadcasts on a limited basis. On Sunday, he will be at Madison Square Garden for the Jets-Rangers contest. He has already

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The cover of veteran broadcaster Bob Cole’s autobiography Now I’m Catching On. done games in Ottawa and Boston with future assignments in Montreal, Detroit and Pittsburgh this year.

“I wish it were more but they’ve got a lot of guys in place,” he said.

“They’ve got my phone number.

I answer every time that it rings” he added dryly.

Maintaining his home in St. John’s makes for some long nights watching West Coast hockey to stay up to date.

His work routine has not changed.

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day and returns Sunday. He meets the coaches the morning of the game to go over their lineups, has a nap in the afternoon and then returns to the rink to go to work.

A stickler for preparation, he left no stone unturned in ensuring he had pronunciations right whether calling an NHL game or the Summit Series.

Years on, he still gets butterflies ahead of a game.

Harry Neale was one of his favourite broadcast partners. “We had a pretty good chemistry in the booth,” Cole wrote. But he has adapted to changing time, working with a colour commentator between the benches rather than in the booth.

Cole’s distinctive play-by-play style “comes on you like smoke from a campfire,” Ron MacLean writes eloquently in the book’s foreword.

And his signature calls — like “Desjardins! And the Canadiens win in overtime,” in the 1993 Stanley Cup final — remain in demand.

“I’ve had guys in NHL dressing rooms come up with something like that. “Give us that (Eric) Desjardins goal, C’mon Bob,” Cole recalled.

But he saves them for the real thing.

Now I’m Catching On. My Life On and Off the Air. Bob Cole with Stephen Brunt. Viking, 146 pages, $32.95.

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Obituaries EDGECOMBE, Velma Lydia July 22, 1928 - Nov. 1, 2016

While the family is saddened

by Velma’s passing, she was drawn by the loss of her husband, Don, who had passed just eight days earlier. They had happily celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on October 11th. Velma was born in Fort Vermilion, AB and after working a short time as a school teacher, joined Don, managing Hudson’s Bay stores in Canada’s north. Velma got into the retail business for herself in 1958, opening Velma’s Kiddie Korner in Whitehorse, YT. From there she partnered with her husband, operating Don’s Mens Wear in Grande Prairie before retiring to Sylvan Lake in 1987. Velma was predeceased by her parents, four brothers and four sisters and son-in-law, Philip Borle. She leaves children, Don (Bonnie), Deb (Gerry), Ron, Kathie (Perry), Wendy (Terry), Kevin (Linda), and 26 cherished grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. The family will be forever grateful to the wonderful staff of the Red Deer Hospital and the Red Deer Hospice. A prayer service will be held at the Sylvan Lake Funeral Home, 5019-47A Ave. at 7:00 PM on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016. A funeral will be held at 1:00 PM on Monday, Nov. 7, 2016 at Our Lady of the Assumption Parish, 5033-47 A Ave., Sylvan Lake, AB, officiated by Father Les Drewicki.

CARTER, Flora The family of Flora Carter is sad to announce her passing on Tuesday, November 1, 2016.

Flora was born on December 4, 1920 on her parent’s farm at Delburne. In 1940 she married Dell Carter and after Dell returned from the war, raised two daughters Colleen Butler and Marlene Bysterveld. Flora remained in her own home on the farm until March of this year where she enjoyed gardening, baking bread and gathering her family around her. She was very proud of her family and her home and was very active in her community. She was predeceased by her husband Dell (1989); her parents Sam and Jessie MacDonald; her brothers Dave, Ike, and John, and her sister May Auvigne; and son-in-law Rod Butler. She is survived by her daughters Colleen Butler and Marlene (Keith) Bysterveld and their families Stephen (Charity) Butler and children Kennedy and Kassidy; Kathy (Kevin) Guard and their children Kaden and Katana; Jennifer (Sonja) Bysterveld; Jessica (Shane) Powers and their children Jorja and Josie; and Jocelyn (Bryce) Pennock and their children Carter, Clancy, and Porter. She has been a role model to all of us with her quiet strength and her zest for life. She lived every moment to the fullest even water sliding and tobogganing at age 93, and zip-lining just 3 short months ago. We “count our blessings” that we had her in our lives for so many years. A celebration of life will be held on Friday, November 4 at 11am at the Delburne Community Hall. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to St. Mary’s Health Care Centre (Trochu) in Flora’s name.

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ASCHENBERGER, Jeanne Marie MCMXLIII - MMXVI Went in for the last good fight she’ll ever know, in late October, with family at her bedside. Her stay at the Red Deer Hospice was short, <24 hrs from her intake. She intended to live out her last days in the comfort of her own home, but it became clear to her that her daughter’s wouldn’t make it so easy for her to leave. She changed her mind about hospice-care. She is survived by her husband, Jack, four children, Scott (Ponoka), Chris, Maryellen, and Cil (all from Sylvan Lake), and also their own children. Jeanne was born by a turn in a valley; her sister June rode on horseback one cold night under a full moon on a day that was regarded to be highly inauspicious. Seven miles from a º section of land to use the closest phone to call her father to make haste. He was lucky enough to make it back to the homestead in time to witness the birth of his newborn daughter, Jeanne (“Genie”), as he liked to call her, a ironic pet name he coined that would follow her throughout the years also as a coincidental mispronunciation of her written name. A lot of you will know her as “Genie”. There were six sisters: Joan, Joy, June, Jeannette, Jeanne, and Judy. After she finished school and worked around as a phone operator, she came to Red Deer and had three kids. Her new family re-located to Iran, but returned soon after. After her kids were old enough to face life independently, she separated from her partner and then started a new chapter. Jeanne started working again at the Sterling dry cleaners in Red Deer, moved in to an apartment with her widowed mother, and they would never leave each other again. She married Jack Aschenberger in 1982, her kids became his kids and she had another daughter with him. She also acquired some amazing daughter-in-laws, Christine (Scott) and Pam (Chris) along with the grandkids; Randi-lynn, Amanda, Janelle, Steven, Jayden, and Wolfgang. She had also acquired a new nickname, OMA. She enjoyed being Oma and spent time with them when she saw them on holiday and family gatherings. Jeanne, Genie, Oma - requested there not be a service. She did not want people to mourn her. The absence of a funeral did not help that. The last few years of her life have been spent as warm and in as much comfort as possible, amidst the strong family support she always had close by during these times, visiting her frequently. She died with family present bedside. Her husband Jack Aschenberger - whom she loved immeasurably, remained at her side with dedicated round the clock care, vigilant and doting, day and night. This was a labor of love, and his customer service was second to none.

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ANDREW, Mary May 14, 1927 - Oct. 28, 2016 It is with great sadness that the family announces the passing of our dear mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend.

Mary was born and raised on a small farm in Southern Saskatchewan. Mary met her husband, John, while working as a nurse’s aide in the Wakaw hospital. After five children and two moves, Mary and John settled in Red deer. Mary was married 40 years to her husband John when he passed away.

Mary’s joy came from watching her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren grow.

Mary will be sadly missed by her children, Pat (Bernie), John, Jim, Ken (Susan) and Kathy (Darryl); grandchildren, Curtis (Shantel), Michael (Sarah), Ryan (Holly), Lucas, Karson, Samuel and Zachary; Great-grandchildren, Kylie, Brock, Wyatt and Weston; as well as numerous family and friends that Mary touched along the way. A service will be held in Red Deer at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 5508 48a Ave on Saturday, Nov 5, 2016 at 11am.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

MATHESON, James Dalhousie Apr. 6, 1931 - Sept. 29, 2016 Funeral Directors Jamie passed away & Services peacefully on September 29, 2016 at his home in Sunset Manor, Innisfail.

He is survived by his sister-in-law, Betty Matheson and eight nephews and nieces. He will also be sadly missed by his good friend, Lauro Ligad.

Jamie was predeceased by his parents, the late Jack Matheson and Mary Murray; two brothers, Ian and Glen Matheson; one sister, Mary Stewart; and a sister-in-law, Eileen Matheson. Jamie’s family would like to give a special thank you to the wonderful and caring folks at Sunset Manor, Innisfail and the Public Guardian’s Office.

He was loved and cared for well.

Cremation was entrusted to Heartland Funeral Homes, Innisfail. A funeral is not planned.

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Winter Wonderland Tea & Bake Sale at St. Leonard’s Church 4241 44 Street, Red Deer. Admission $4, Sat. Nov. 5, 9 - noon.

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HOERLE, Glen Feb. 7, 1948 - Oct. 23, 2106 Mr. Victor Glen “Bink” Hoerle of Red Deer passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on October 23, 2016 at the age of 68. He was the father of Tara Gunsch and her family, including son-inlaw Chris and their children Casey and Jesse. He will also be dearly missed by his brother Don Hoerle and his wife Esther of Innisfail, and his sisters Marie Hoerle of Red Deer and Elvera Coules of Stettler. He will be lovingly remembered by his nephews, nieces and their families as well as many dear friends. A Celebration of Glen’s life will be held at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150-67th Street, Red Deer on November 7th, 2016 at 1:30pm. The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made in Glen’s name to the Red Deer Foodbank Society 12-7429 49 Ave, Red Deer AB T4P 1N2. Throughout his life Glen always believed in taking care of those who needed help, and the family feels that he would like to continue to help others, even after his passing. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-3319.

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KEYS, lost at Parkland Mall on Monday, Oct. 31.

Key for a Chrysler Van as well as house and garage keys. Has name Dale, also War Amp tags. If found please call 403-347-3792

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BACKPACK with some personal items, found in Fairview area on old railway tracks.

Must identify to claim.

403-346-7235

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Caregivers/ Aides

710

F/T IN-HOME Child Caregiver in Red Deer @ Baza Res. for an infant. Cert. & High School Grad. Duties; bathe, dress, feed & maintain safe & clean environment, 40 hrs./wk @$11.25/hr. email resume to: apply@ elmerbaza3@shaw.ca FT in-home caregiver for 9 hrs/OT. Household chores & care for 2 children.

Wage $12.20/hr. Caregiver course, CPR, police clearance. Send resume w/ref. to louieandpamie @yahoo.com.

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In Memoriam MACKENZIE, Marion Passed away Nov. 4, 2013

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Announcements

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Classifieds 309-3300

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

Mountview Antique/Retro/Vintage Sale Saturday, Nov. 5 9-4 4316 - 32 ST. Lots of Great Stuff!

Red Deer ADVOCATE CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300

CONSIDERING A CAREER CHANGE? Daily, the Red Deer Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

710

PERM., full-time, day, evening, 40 hours/wk., $12.20/hr., employer’s home. Optional accommodation avail. at no cost on a live-in basis. Note: This is not a condition of employment. Additional skills: assume full responsibility for household in absence of parents, supervise and care for children, prepare and serve nutritious meals.

Apply by e-mail: mlcastillo0624@yahoo.ca

Clerical

720

MEDICAL Receptionist required for a 2 month term. This position could lead to full-time. Exceptional customer service skills are essential as this position deals with the public.

Hours are 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. and occasional Saturdays.

Starting wage is $15/hr.

Please send your resume with avail. dates to Box 1124, c/o RED DEER ADVOCATE, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

Computer Personnel

730

MICROAGE Senior Computer Technician The successful candidate must be a team player with strong interpersonal skills and a willingness to mentor junior technicians.

Exp. in customer service, good organization skills, self-starter and exp. working in the computer industry. Salary based on exp., company benefits.

For further details visit www.microage.ca/red-deer Please forward resume to HR@microage.cc

Restaurant/ Hotel

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Caregivers/ Aides

820

JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: #3, 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Food Service Supervisor Req’d F/T & P/T permanent shift, early morning, morning, day, eves. shift weekend day night. 40 - 44 hrs/wk 8 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. + medical, dental, life and vision benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Experience 1 yr. to less than 2 yrs. Education not req’d. Apply in person or fax 403-314-1303

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880

GREENHOUSE WORKERS wanted at Meadowbrook Greenhouses, Penhold. 40 Full Time Seasonal Positions.

No experience necessary, training provided. Starting Feb. 2017. $12.20/hr, 44 hrs, 5 days per week, 3 month period. Fax resume to 403-886-2252 or email to sales@mbrook.ca

HERITAGE LANES BOWLING

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Greenhouse workers wanted for Blue Grass Nursery & Garden Center in Red Deer, Alberta We are looking for 10 full time seasonal employees.

No experience needed, training will be provided Starting in February 2017.

Duration is for 4 months Wage is $12.20 per hour at maximum 44 hrs./week.

Please fax resume to 403-342-7488 Or by email: edgar.rosales@bg-rd.com

HERITAGE LANES BOWLING Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s a SPECIAL EVENTS CO-ORDINATOR Please send resume to: htglanes@ telus.net or apply in person

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Employment Training

900

SAFETY

1530

Auctions

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TRAINING CENTRE 403.341.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

1660

B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

1700 1710

1590

Clothing

GOLDEN Ranch Faux Mink, long length, new, $100.

Sz. large. 403-309-6653

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BOOSTER Cables, #2, Copper clad, $40; Metric Socket Set & Ratchets, extensions & tools and tool box, $100. 403-343-6044

LOGS BUD HAYNES & WARD’S Semi loads of pine, spruce, Firearms Auction tamarack, poplar, birch.

50th Anniversary Price depends on location Sat. & Sun. Dec. 10 & 11 of delivery. Lil Mule @ 10 A.M. Logging 403-318-4346 11802-145 St. Edmonton Over 800 Lots, Modern & Collectable Firearms, ammo Health & Featuring Ken Wardlow’s Beauty Life Time Collection of Antique Knives & Tobacco INVERSION Table, H.D. Memorabilia. $200.

On Line Pictured 403-343-6044 Catalogue & Bidding To Consign: Linda @403-597-1095 Household Brad Ward 780-940-8378 www.budhaynesauctions.com Appliances www.wardsauctions.com WANTED: Dead or alive major appliances. Cash for some. 403-342-1055

PS2 SLIM with 11, $70.

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Tools

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Electronics

Household Furnishings

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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

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COFFEE table and 2 matching end tables, $90.

403-309-4518 TWO armed chairs, one ~ dark green leatherette with Chrome arms, $10; and one ~ gray upholstery office chair w/black metal sides. exc. cond., $15.

403-346-5423

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X BOX, older, with 14 games. $80. 403-782-3847

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Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

1760

100 VHS movies, $75 for all. 403-885-5020 2 ELECTRIC LAMPS, $20. ~ SOLD ~

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Contractors

1100

DALE’S HOME RENO’S Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

1160

Entertainment

DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606

Handyman Services

1200

BOOK NOW! For your small jobs around the house such as painting, laminate flooring, bathroom reno.

Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA

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10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445 YOU can sell it fast with a person-to-person want ad in the Red Deer Advocate Classifieds. Phone 309-3300

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Services

1290

Roofing

1370

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured.

403-896-4869

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

Snow

1380

Removal Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s A-1 GARBAGE PICK-UP & permanent F/T & P/T front SNOW REMOVAL Recycling avail. weekly counter staff for (eves. and Call Ryan @ 403-348-1459 or occasional basis. wknds). Must be 18+ yrs.

(403) 505-4777.

Central Alberta LIFE Please send resume to: The newspaper farmers Yard htglanes@ to for best values in: Painters/ telus.net or apply in person look Care *Farm Machinery, *Feed & Grain, *Livestock, *Trailers, Decorators *Supplies & *More.

NEED someone to SNOW/junk/tree removal, CHECK US OUT clean outside windows.

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. and garage door services.

Ph. 403-343-8387 403-358-1614 Free Est. 403-872-8888 CALL 309-3300

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BREADMAKER, $55; Rotisserie Oven, $100; Almost new deep fryer, $45. 403-342-6880 LANTERN, propane with Case. $75. 403-343-6044 PROPANE barbecue with side burner, $50.

403-309-4518 SMALL CEILING FAN for bedroom, football/hockey design. Exc. cond. $15.

403-346-5423 WEDDING dress, size 10, fits small, $200. NEW 403-309-4518 WOOD Stove, cast iron, never used, test Standard UL 1482, Farm, cottage or shop. $550. 403-342-7295

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WHITE metal table stand, $10; recorder with lesson book and music stand, $5; stove top popcorn popper, $10; personal room humidifier, $10; 45” Oval braided rug, green, $10; frosted base table lamp with beige shade, $20.

403-343-1266 WOODEN shelving, $75.

403-885-5020

Cats

1830

KITTEN TO GIVE AWAY, adorable F. Apprx. 12 wks old. Litter box trained.

403-343-8727

CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK

Sporting Goods

1860

1 YR old 3 bdrm. house with garage, in Laredo. 6 appls. $1450. no pets. N/S 403-350-7421

1900

2 BDRM. Blackfalds, duplex, 4 appl., $1000/mo. + utils., 403-318-3284

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1930

WANTED ~ Trip hammer.

403-728-3454 WANTED: Old Tonka toys or parts. 403-318-5310

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FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Acreages/ Farms

For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK ANDERS, BOWER, HIGHLAND GREEN, INGLEWOOD, JOHNSTONE, KENTWOOD, RIVERSIDE MEADOWS, PINES, SUNNYBROOK, SOUTHBROOKE, WEST LAKE, WEST PARK

NEWER 4 bdrm., 2 bath, house in Vanier, pet friendly, $1500./mo.

Christmas bonus, Dec. 1/2 price. 403-341-5005 SYLVAN LAKE fully furn. rentals, incld’s all utils. & cable. $1200 - $1600./mo.

NEG. Call 403-880-0210

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

3 BDRM. townhouse in Red Deer, 1.5 bath, 4 appl.

403-887-4670 or 403-350-6194

ATTRACTIVE Townhouse Right on the Green Belt AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

3010

GULL LAKE VIEW ACREAGE. Newly reno’d, 2 bdrm. + den, 1 bath.

1550 sq.ft. all on 1 level.

Approx. 15 miles NW Lacombe on E side of lake.

Barn, no inside pets. Lrg. yard, lots of trees. Carol, 403-273-0775 RURAL Farm home to rent, 20 min. SW of Red Deer. 403-396-7862

CARRIERS NEEDED

3 BDRM., main flr., and 3 bdrm. bsmt. 403-346-1825

3 + 4 BDRM. townhouse, close to school & all amenities. 6 appls., small pets welcome.

403-506-0054

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3020

REMINGTON Classic 700, 338 Win Mag. 6 to 24 custom muzzle break, $800. obo. 403-348-9606

rentals

CLEARVIEW RIDGE, CLEARVIEW, TIMBERSTONE, LANCASTER, VANIER, WOODLEA/WASKASOO, DEER PARK, GRANDVIEW, EASTVIEW, MICHENER, MOUNTVIEW, ROSEDALE, GARDEN HEIGHTS, MORRISROE

Houses/ Duplexes

3 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms $1075/mo with a SD as low as $200 1 month absolutely free (1 year lease)

Please contact Katie at 403-318-1250

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Condos/ Townhouses

3030

FORMER SHOWHOME, Clearview townhouse, 2 bdrm./2 1/2 bath, 2 yrs. old, fully dev. bsmt., could be 3 bdrm., 2 parking pads, no pets, n/s, $1295/mo. + $1295 security/DD. David @ 403-350-5950

SEIBEL PROPERTY ONE MONTH FREE RENT 6 locations in Red Deer, well-maintained townhouses, lrg, 3 bdrm, 1/2 1 bath, 4 + 5 appls.

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ORIOLE PARK 3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $975. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage.

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Incld’s all utils. Avail. now or Dec. 1. 403-304-5337

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Extra storage, free parking, Lot heat incl. in rent. $950/mo.

PADS $450/mo.

Call Jac @ 403-227-1049.

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REFUGEES

239-plus migrants die in two shipwrecks this week

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RUSSELS — At least 239 migrants are believed to have drowned this week in two shipwrecks off the coast of Libya, the United Nations refugee agency said Thursday, adding to the toll in what was already the deadliest year on record in the Mediterranean Sea. Survivor accounts suggest that two crowded boats broke up just off the Libyan coast Wednesday, said Carlotta Sami, spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.

The 31 survivors were taken Thursday to the Italian island of Lampedusa, which has become a rescue hub amid an ever-deadlier crisis as migrants depart Africa’s northern shores trying to reach Europe.

The reports from the survivors could not be independently confirmed, but it is common for migrant ships to be filled far beyond capacity, and hundreds have perished in past sinkings. If true, the latest

shipwrecks bring the toll of dead and missing in the Mediterranean to 4,220 this year, the highest on record, Sami said.

“This is an absolutely appalling figure,” she said.

According to Sami, the 29 survivors of the first wreck said they capsized after wooden planks at the bottom of the rubber dinghy broke apart several hours after departing Libya around 3 a.m.

Wednesday.

Pregnant women and at least six children were on board, survivors told the UNHCR, but no children were saved in the rescue, which took place about 25 miles off Libya’s coast. One woman lost her 2-month-old baby, Sami said, and 12 bodies were recovered.

The survivors said they were in the cold waters for hours before being rescued about 3 p.m.

Wednesday. They said more than 140 people were aboard the boat.

Two survivors of a second shipwreck were rescued in a separate operation, Sami said. They said at least 120 had been on board their boat, which had

DEATH PENALTY

problems immediately upon setting out and broke apart off the Libyan coast around 5 a.m. Wednesday.

The remaining passengers are believed to have drowned, Sami said. No further rescue operations are being performed at the location of those shipwrecks.

“I am deeply saddened by another tragedy on the high seas… . So many lives could be saved through more resettlement and legal pathways to protection,” U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said in a statement Thursday. “The Mediterranean is a deadly stretch of sea for refugees and migrants, yet they still see no other option but to risk their lives to cross it.”

Most of the migrants appear to have come from sub-Saharan Africa, Sami said, but she said details were still being checked. She did not immediately know which agency carried out the rescue.

The European Union is conducting a searchand-rescue operation in the western Mediterranean that is temporarily being offered logistical help from the NATO military alliance.

U.S. KILLING

Alabama set to Man arrested in execute killer toddler’s death appeal. During his third trial in 1991, Arthur ignored the advice of his attorneys and asked the jury to sentence TMORE, Ala. — An Alahim to death. He said at the time that bama man convicted of he didn’t have a death wish, but it was a the 1982 shooting death way of opening more avenues of appeal. of a woman’s husband in Arthur has waged a lengthy legal a murder-for-hire arrangement was battle challenging both his convicset to be executed Thursday tion and the constitutionalevening. ity of the death penalty. The Tommy Arthur, now 74, was Alabama Supreme Court has convicted of killing Troy Wickpreviously set six execution er with a shot through the dates for Arthur, but he won eye as he slept in his Muscle reprieves each time with Shoals home that year. some stays coming hours beWicker’s wife initially told fore he was set to die. authorities she had been The Alabama attorney genraped and that an intruder eral’s office in July had asked killed her husband, but she the court to set an “expedited later testified she had sex seventh execution date” after Tommy with Arthur and promised a federal judge dismissed Arhim $10,000 to kill her husArthur thur’s latest challenge to state band. At the time of Wicker’s death penalty procedures. death, Arthur was in a prison Arthur, who has maintained work-release program after his innocence, sent Alabama Gov. Robbeing convicted of the 1977 murder of ert Bentley a four-page handwritten his sister-in-law. letter requesting a stay of execution, Arthur’s execution time was pushed arguing he had never had a fair trial back at the Holman Correctional Fa- and that potential DNA evidence in cility in Atmore as the U.S. Supreme the case had not been reviewed.

Court reviewed Arthur’s request for a “I’m not guilty and did not have a stay, officials said. The court granted fair trial in 1991,” Arthur wrote. a temporary stay late Thursday, until Arthur’s attorneys filed two refurther order of the court. quests Thursday with the U.S. SuPrison system spokesman Bob Hor- preme Court to stay the execution. ton said the state will wait until Arthur’s They argued that Arthur was sendeath warrant expires at midnight to tenced under a similar structure that see if the execution can proceed. was ruled unconstitutional in Florida Juries twice convicted Arthur, but because it put too much power in the those convictions were overturned on hands of judges.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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STABBING DEATH OF A THREE-YEAR-OLD GIRL

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles man was charged Thursday with the stabbing death of a 3-year-old girl randomly attacked just steps from her parents at their workplace.

Ricardo Utuy, 34, was charged with murder in the girl’s death and attempted murder a separate attack on a woman in March. He was ordered held on $3 million bail.

Utuy’s arraignment had been set for Thursday, but it was postponed until Dec. 7. It’s unclear if he has an attorney.

The 3-year-old girl, whom police called “Baby Ruby,” was with her parents Monday at the clothing factory where they and Utuy work when she left her mother’s side to give her father a cookie.

That’s when prosecutors say Utuy attacked the girl, stabbing her multiple times with a knife.

The wounded girl made it back to her mother with Utuy close behind her before he fled, prosecutors said.

Although 911 was called, the girl’s mother flagged down an ambulance faster, and the girl was rushed to the hospital, where she died of her injuries, Los Angeles Police Capt. Julian Melendez said.

He said Utuy had been working at the factory for a couple weeks and hadn’t interacted much with the girl’s

RICARDO UTUY, 34, WAS CHARGED WITH MURDER IN THE GIRL’S DEATH AND ATTEMPTED MURDER A SEPARATE ATTACK ON A WOMAN IN MARCH. HE WAS ORDERED HELD ON $3 MILLION BAIL. parents.

The attempted-murder charge against Utuy stems from an attack on a woman at another factory in March.

Prosecutors said Utuy stabbed the woman and fled.

Melendez said the woman reported the stabbing to police at the time, but investigators had very few details about Utuy and were unable to track him down.

Although the woman came forward after police released a photo of Utuy, Melendez said Utuy separately told investigators he had previously stabbed a female co-worker and a man named Alex. Detectives are looking for the man.

“It’s a win to get somebody like this off the streets,” Melendez said.

As for the motive in the girl’s stabbing, investigators have said Utuy was acting strangely beforehand, talking and laughing to himself, but they didn’t immediately know why.

Utuy faces life in prison if convicted.

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Greedy sibling sees dollar signs in crippled dad

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ear Annie: Just a word to alert people to something that must be very common: greed in families.

My dad has been crippled for many years. I have lived with him and taken care of him ever since the accident, after which he could no longer drive. My sister has basically ignored him except on Thanksgiving and Christmas, when her family usually gets thousands of dollars from him.

We live in the same town, but I don’t recall a single time when they invited him to go along on a trip to a shopping center — or anywhere, for that matter. Twice, they tried to get him to buy them a new house. The last time, he was to sell everything he had and buy them the new house — but not be allowed to live in it. I will not say where they were going to put him, except a lawyer I know called it barbaric. I am sure that would have lasted only until the Medicare look-back period elapsed and then they would

have moved him into a facility.

Dad was too smart to fall for that; I did not have to say a word.

Nephews and nieces — they showed up when cheques were being handed out, but when the checks stopped, so did they. There is a lot Annie more that I have held in Lane for years, but the point is that I definitely do not feel part of that family, and now that my dad’s time and mine are growing close, my will states that what I leave behind (a not-inconsiderable amount) will go to hospitals for children. I feel no obligation to my sister or other relatives. It would be far too late to change things now, nor do I want to. I just do not have the energy, and Dad is too incapacitated to do much of anything.

I know they are expecting a show-

er of money and will be greatly surprised. The point is that you should treat people as you would like to be treated yourself, or at the end, you may just get exactly what you have earned. Would you advise any differently? — Disillusioned Dear Disillusioned: It’s wonderful that your dad could rely on you all these years. You should be grateful for the special bond you two have shared for so long. Let that gratitude occupy way more space in your heart than the resentment toward your siblings does. You will feel lighter.

Dear Annie: My niece lived with a partner who had wonderful small children. They were together for over four years, and our family came to love them all very much. When they broke up, she was not allowed by her ex to see the children or have any contact with them. Those children called her Mama, and we considered them family.

I know the breakup was bitter, and

there were problems caused by both adults in the relationship. I just think about those kids all the time and how they must wonder what happened to their “cousins,” “aunts,” “uncles” and “grandparents” who included them in fun, baby-sat them and gave them love and affection. I know that the biological parent makes the decisions, but I worry about the long-term effects to these kids. — Heartsick Dear Heartsick: Sadly, most breakups mean saying goodbye not just to a partner but also to parents, siblings, friends and more. That there were children involved here makes it even more heartbreaking. I hope the ex fully considered the effects on them and is helping them adjust. It’s unfortunate, but you’re right that neither you nor your niece has grounds to contact them at this point. Perhaps once the children turn 18, you could reach out and see how they’re doing.

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators.com.

OFFBEAT

Runaway pig rounded up by police and returned to owner

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

HALIFAX — A wayward pig named Kevin Bacon has been safely returned to his owner, thanks to a couple of bemused police officers who found the portly animal waddling “footloose and fancy free” down a residential street.

Members of the Halifax force were called to an area around Russell Street in Dartmouth on Tuesday after

people out for a walk came upon the potbellied pig and notified police.

Constables Nick Webber and Cody Schultz approached the happy looking animal as he munched grass on someone’s front lawn.

“He was lovely — he was very happy to see them and very friendly and wasn’t scared to see them,” said police spokeswoman, Const. Dianne Woodworth. “He’s adorable.”

When asked about the demeanor of the pig — named for the star of the

1980s movie Footloose — Woodworth chuckled and said, “I think he was just excited to be out front. You could say he was footloose and fancy free.”

She said Bacon was not in any danger and was following the rules of the road by staying on the sidewalk, adding that he hadn’t ventured far from his home after likely escaping from his backyard.

She said the officers didn’t have a hard time rounding him up, making the apprehension of Bacon likely a

first for the force.

“We’ve had deer loose in the city and even a moose, but not a pig that I’m aware of,” she said with a laugh.

A picture posted on the force’s Facebook page showing one of the officers reaching out to the pig generated more than 1,200 likes and dozens of comments, including one from a woman who said, “Good thing they found Kevin before he became Chris P Bacon lol!”

the most of the day by planning carefully and researching thoroughly.

Joint ventures and group projects are particularly favoured, as you combine creative talents for the greater good.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’s a super day to spend time nurturing a romantic or business partnership. Venus urges you to be more consultative.

While Saturn urges you to accept your relationship responsibilities with a smile.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): As the day develops, shake off the worries of the world and focus on spending quality time with someone special.

Or enjoy creative solo pursuits like cooking, crafting, painting or playing music.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Are work problems or relationship challenges getting you down? The more you resist, the more the problems will persist. The message for clever Cats? Go with the flow and learn to let go!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Mercury encourages all forms of communication, both in person and online. Plus good old-fashioned face-to-face conversation! And make sure you really listen to what a loved one has to say.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Don’t rush Libra! The more creative you are — especially at work — then the better the day will be. Spend quality time with loved ones this evening, as the Moon moves through your family zone.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Money matters are on your mind. But you need to do more than just think about your financial situation. Balancing the budget is your number one priority, as you strive to spend less and save more.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Many speedy Sagittarians naturally possess a superficial grasp of a wide range of subjects. But — as the day develops — strive to slow down and ex-

amine issues with greater focus and depth.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t accept things at face value today Capricorn. The Moon’s moves into your sign, so the devil is definitely in the detail. Do your homework and check the facts before you make commitments.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Resist the urge to live too much in the world of rational logic. Or to be swayed by what a friend or colleague is thinking.

If you follow your feelings and trust your intuition, you’ll find your way.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Professional projects are highlighted today Pisces, as you put in maximum effort for positive results. When it comes to a casual acquaintance, there’s a lot going on beneath the surface.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

Horoscopes Friday, Nov. 4 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Matthew McConaughey, 47; Kathy Griffin, 56; Sean Puffy Combs, 47 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Things become more stable and certain as the day progresses.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Joanne You have a magnetic Madeline personality that draws Moore others to you. Next January and June are the best months to fall in love, propose, get married or renew your wedding vows.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you worried about a work or education issue? Avoid being short-sighted and making impulsive moves. A calm, considered approach — with a view to the future — is the smart way to go.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Make

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